TY - JOUR T1 - Physostigmine as treatment for severe CNS anticholinergic toxicity JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 412 LP - 412 DO - 10.1136/emj.18.5.412 VL - 18 IS - 5 AU - R Teoh AU - A-V Page AU - R Hardern Y1 - 2001/09/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/18/5/412.1.abstract N2 - Editor,—We report the successful use of physostigmine to treat central anticholinergic toxicity: a use described before but rarely seen.1 We treated a patient admitted after an overdose of amisulpride and procyclidine (not his own medication). He became extremely agitated and was treated with intravenous benzodiazepines (total quantity in 26 hours equivalent to 125 mg diazepam) but remained agitated. Because … ER -