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Anastaziya [24]
3 years ago
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It is summer and an 82-year-old woman is brought to you from her home after seeing her primary care doctor 2 days ago. She was s

tarted on an antibiotic at that time. Today, she comes to the emergency room not knowing where she is or what year it is. What could be a likely cause of this
Medicine
1 answer:
bija089 [108]3 years ago
4 0

This could have been a case of polymedication, but I doubt it since it is an 82-year-old woman. I'm not sure if they are antibiotics, but benzodiazepines and anticholinergic drugs can cause amnesia. Or, it is a possibility her primary care doctor gave her the wrong dosage of the antibiotics, causing side effects, one of them possibly being amnesia.

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