McKnight Lucas, Widman Joshua J
Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, USA.
Hospital Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, USA.
Cureus. 2025 Mar 12;17(3):e80481. doi: 10.7759/cureus.80481. eCollection 2025 Mar.
Inability to ambulate is a common issue for which an Emergency Department (ED) may request inpatient admission to the hospital. Frequent contributing factors include advanced age, spinal stenosis, osteoarthritis, deconditioning, and polypharmacy. We present an interesting case of a patient admitted due to inability to ambulate who had a significant acute decline in function coincident with the introduction of gabapentin in the setting of heavy tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) use.
无法行走是急诊科可能会要求患者住院治疗的常见问题。常见的促成因素包括高龄、椎管狭窄、骨关节炎、身体机能减退和多种药物联用。我们报告了一例有趣的病例,一名因无法行走而入院的患者,在大量使用四氢大麻酚(THC)的情况下开始服用加巴喷丁后,其功能急剧急性下降。