Prolonged delirium managed with risperidone [4]

Psychosomatics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 90-91

  Bourgeois, James A ^a   Hilty, Donald M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DROPERIDOL; HALOPERIDOL; METOPROLOL; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE SULFATE; OPIATE; RISPERIDONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGITATION; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; DELIRIUM; DIAPHORESIS; DYSTONIA; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTUBATION; LETTER; LUNG CONTUSION; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PNEUMONIA; RIB FRACTURE; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINUSITIS; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 11344295829     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.46.1.90     Document Type: Letter

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