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In an Emergency Setting, What Is the Best Intramuscular Pharmacological Treatment to Give to an Agitated Geriatric Patient?
Herein, we describe an agitated geriatric patient who suffered an adverse outcome due to treatment for agitation in an emergency setting. This led to the prompt review of the current literature on best-practice medication to use in this population. After careful review, the authors recommend olanzap...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239320/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774721 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25382 |
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author | Malone, Kevin Saveen, Sall Hollier, Janice |
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description | Herein, we describe an agitated geriatric patient who suffered an adverse outcome due to treatment for agitation in an emergency setting. This led to the prompt review of the current literature on best-practice medication to use in this population. After careful review, the authors recommend olanzapine as the first-line medication for agitation due to its lower risk-averse effect profile when compared to other medications used for this patient population. |
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spelling | pubmed-92393202022-06-29 In an Emergency Setting, What Is the Best Intramuscular Pharmacological Treatment to Give to an Agitated Geriatric Patient? Malone, Kevin Saveen, Sall Hollier, Janice Cureus Emergency Medicine Herein, we describe an agitated geriatric patient who suffered an adverse outcome due to treatment for agitation in an emergency setting. This led to the prompt review of the current literature on best-practice medication to use in this population. After careful review, the authors recommend olanzapine as the first-line medication for agitation due to its lower risk-averse effect profile when compared to other medications used for this patient population. Cureus 2022-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9239320/ /pubmed/35774721 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25382 Text en Copyright © 2022, Malone et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Emergency Medicine Malone, Kevin Saveen, Sall Hollier, Janice In an Emergency Setting, What Is the Best Intramuscular Pharmacological Treatment to Give to an Agitated Geriatric Patient? |
title | In an Emergency Setting, What Is the Best Intramuscular Pharmacological Treatment to Give to an Agitated Geriatric Patient? |
title_full | In an Emergency Setting, What Is the Best Intramuscular Pharmacological Treatment to Give to an Agitated Geriatric Patient? |
title_fullStr | In an Emergency Setting, What Is the Best Intramuscular Pharmacological Treatment to Give to an Agitated Geriatric Patient? |
title_full_unstemmed | In an Emergency Setting, What Is the Best Intramuscular Pharmacological Treatment to Give to an Agitated Geriatric Patient? |
title_short | In an Emergency Setting, What Is the Best Intramuscular Pharmacological Treatment to Give to an Agitated Geriatric Patient? |
title_sort | in an emergency setting, what is the best intramuscular pharmacological treatment to give to an agitated geriatric patient? |
topic | Emergency Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239320/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774721 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25382 |
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