Rajah A
Department of Anaesthetics, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
Anaesthesia. 1990 Nov;45(11):955-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1990.tb14629.x.
A 39-year-old patient was found to be unconscious after having taken 2.5 g of chloroquine. Treatment consisted mainly of gastric lavage and diazepam. Experimental and clinical evidence is presented to show that diazepam in varying doses significantly decreases the mortality rate.