Lesson of the month 2: A case of coma in a Parkinson's patient: a combination of fatigue, dehydration and high protein diet over the New Year period?

Nirmalan Arulanantham; Ralph Wing Fung Lee; Tom Hayton

doi:10.7861/clinmedicine.14-4-449

Lesson of the month 2: A case of coma in a Parkinson's patient: a combination of fatigue, dehydration and high protein diet over the New Year period?

Nirmalan Arulanantham, Ralph Wing Fung Lee and Tom Hayton

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.14-4-449

Clin Med August 2014

Nirmalan Arulanantham

Athe Great Western Hospital, Swindon, UK; previously specialist registrar, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and General Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK and honorary lecturer, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Birmingham, UK

Roles: locum consultant in general medicine

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For correspondence: nirmalan.arulanantham@doctors.org.uk

Ralph Wing Fung Lee

BWest Midlands rotation, UK

Roles: core medical trainee

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Tom Hayton

CDepartment of Neurology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK

Roles: consultant neurologist

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Fig 1.
Algorithm for estimating parenteral doses of drugs for Parkinson's disease. Reproduced with permission from Brennan et al (2010).⁵ COMT = catechol-O-methyltransferase; L-dopa = levodopa; LEDD = levodopa equivalent daily dose; LEF = levodopa equivalent factor.

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