General Anesthesia for a Dissociative Identity Disorder Patient With 20 Personalities: A Case Report

Kuroda, Izumi; Hashimoto, Mayumi; Sato, Aiji; Tachi, Naoko; Okuni, Nozomi; Tashiro, Hikari; Hattori, Hiroka; Hasegawa, Hidemitsu; Yamada, Masahiro; Okuda, Masahiro

doi:10.2344/anpr-68-04-04

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“…While treatment for DID ranges includes various forms of psychotherapy, such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), there is one case report of general anesthesia being used therapeutically in a 36 year old gentleman with DID, using a combination of propofol, sevoflurane, and remifentanil [ 3 , 4 ]. On the other hand, to our knowledge, anesthesia has never been reported in the literature to be a precipitating factor for a dissociative episode in patients with DID.…”

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