Detailed description of a successful outpatient taper of phenobarbital therapy
K. Geurian and I. Burns
Department of Medical Education, Saint Margaret Memorial Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Phenobarbital therapy may be successfully discontinued in elderly patients,
particularly when there is no clear indication for its use. When
discontinuing phenobarbital therapy, tapering is recommended to avoid the
signs and the symptoms of phenobarbital withdrawal. However, detailed
descriptions of the design and implementation of such a taper are not
easily found in the medical literature. This case report describes in
detail a method used to conduct a successful outpatient taper of
phenobarbital therapy.
