Haloperidol Induced Sudden Cardiac Arrest—Report of a Very Rare Case and Review of Literature

Haloperidol is a typical antipsychotic drug. This drug is still widely used in emergency medicine, psychiatry, and general medicine departments. It is mostly used for acute confusional state, psychotic disorders, agitation, delirium, and aggressive behaviour. Overdose of haloperidol can cause sudden...

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Autores principales: Dar, Parvez Mohi-Ud-Din, Kaur, Supreet, Boddeda, Jogendra, Wani, Sajid Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7396030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32774974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1836716
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author Dar, Parvez Mohi-Ud-Din
Kaur, Supreet
Boddeda, Jogendra
Wani, Sajid Mohammad
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description Haloperidol is a typical antipsychotic drug. This drug is still widely used in emergency medicine, psychiatry, and general medicine departments. It is mostly used for acute confusional state, psychotic disorders, agitation, delirium, and aggressive behaviour. Overdose of haloperidol can cause sudden deaths. Cardiopulmonary arrest related to use of haloperidol had been reported in literature as case reports but are very few. No such cases have been reported in India till now. We report a case of cardiac arrest due to the use of haloperidol.
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spelling pubmed-73960302020-08-07 Haloperidol Induced Sudden Cardiac Arrest—Report of a Very Rare Case and Review of Literature Dar, Parvez Mohi-Ud-Din Kaur, Supreet Boddeda, Jogendra Wani, Sajid Mohammad Case Rep Psychiatry Case Report Haloperidol is a typical antipsychotic drug. This drug is still widely used in emergency medicine, psychiatry, and general medicine departments. It is mostly used for acute confusional state, psychotic disorders, agitation, delirium, and aggressive behaviour. Overdose of haloperidol can cause sudden deaths. Cardiopulmonary arrest related to use of haloperidol had been reported in literature as case reports but are very few. No such cases have been reported in India till now. We report a case of cardiac arrest due to the use of haloperidol. Hindawi 2020-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7396030/ /pubmed/32774974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1836716 Text en Copyright © 2020 Parvez Mohi-Ud-Din Dar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Haloperidol Induced Sudden Cardiac Arrest—Report of a Very Rare Case and Review of Literature
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title_sort haloperidol induced sudden cardiac arrest—report of a very rare case and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7396030/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1836716
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