Droperidol - Behind the black box warning

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 615-618

  Horowitz, B Zane ^a   Bizovi, Kenneth ^a   Moreno, Raymond ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMPHETAMINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BUTYROPHENONE; CLOZAPINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; DROPERIDOL; FENTANYL DERIVATIVE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; OLANZAPINE; ONDANSETRON; PETHIDINE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROCHLORPERAZINE MALEATE; PROMETHAZINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST; SERTINDOLE; VASOPRESSIN;

AGITATION; AKATHISIA; DELIRIUM; DRUG SCREENING; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; NAUSEA; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; TORSADE DES POINTES;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; ANTIEMETICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DROPERIDOL; DRUG LABELING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EUROPE; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; NAUSEA; TORSADES DE POINTES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VOMITING;

EID: 0036269026     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.6.615     Document Type: Note

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