Haloperidol Overdosing in the Treatment of Agitated Hospitalized Older People with Delirium: A Retrospective Chart Review from a Community Teaching Hospital - Zirker, William; Dorokhine, Igor; Knapp, Clifford M.; Patel, Nayan; Musuku, Mary (Drugs & aging, 2013)
Keywords: Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging; Anesthesia; Anti-Anxiety Agents - administration & dosage; Anti-Anxiety Agents - adverse effects; Anti-Anxiety Agents - therapeutic use; Antipsychotics; Biological and medical sciences; Data collection; Delirium; Delirium - drug therapy; Delirium - physiopathology; Dementia; Documentation; Dopamine; Dopamine Antagonists - administration & dosage; Dopamine Antagonists - adverse effects; Dopamine Antagonists - therapeutic use; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug dosages; Drug Prescriptions; Drug Therapy, Combination - adverse effects; Female; GABA Modulators - administration & dosage; GABA Modulators - adverse effects; GABA Modulators - therapeutic use; Geriatrics/Gerontology; Haloperidol - administration & dosage; Haloperidol - adverse effects; Haloperidol - therapeutic use; Hospitalization; Hospitals, Community; Hospitals, Teaching; Humans; Internal Medicine; Length of Stay; Lorazepam - administration & dosage; Lorazepam - adverse effects; Lorazepam - therapeutic use; Male; Medical Records; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Older people; Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology; Original Research Article; Patients; Pennsylvania; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Pharmacotherapy; Practice Patterns, Physicians; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychomotor Agitation - etiology; Psychomotor Agitation - prevention & control; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychotropic drugs; Retrospective Studies; Teaching hospitals; Pennsylvania; United States--US; Olanzapine; Haloperidol; Risperidone; Quetiapine; Dose Group; Human; Delirium; Agitation; Teaching hospital; Neuroleptic; Psychotropic; Dopamine antagonist; Overdosing; Butyrophenone derivatives; Hospitalization; Review; Organic mental disorder; D2 Dopamine receptor; Treatment; Follow up study; Elderly; Mental confusion