[Anorexia nervosa. Implications for emergency medical services].
We discuss emergency medical service implications of eating disorders using the case of CPR in a 30-year-old female with severe anorexia nervosa and offer a literature review of potential lethal complications. Despite therapeutical advances, anorexia nervosa is still an illness with considerably high mortality. Potential severe complications of this illness can have life-threatening implications. Emergency medical service decisions have a prognostic impact on the further course of the illness. Whether patients should be treated against their own volition is of particular importance.
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Klinik und Poliklinik für Anaesthesiologie und Intensivtherapie, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden.
Köllner
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Frank
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D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis