I hate purple haloperidol. It's those tardive dyskinesias and the fact that broken teeth and lockjaw is so unpleasant. Dang those ER docs. If Haldol ever invented an aerosol, the shipment would be high-jacked before it would ever reach its destination,though.
The antipsychotic medicine makes people more psychotic in the long term. It seems paradoxical that drugs that ameliorate acute psychotic symptoms over the short term will increase the likelihood that a person diagnosed with schizophrenia will become chronically ill. But that disturbing fact showed up in the very first outcome studies, and has continued to show up in outcome studies ever since.
"One Year After Discharge: Community Adjustment of Schizophrenic Patients" 1967 NINA R. SCHOOLER; SOLOMON C.GOLDBERG; HELVI BOOTHE; JONATHAN O. COLE . http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=150571
"Relapse in Chronic Schizophrenics following Abrupt Withdrawal of Tranquilizing Medication" 1969 ROBERT F.PRIEN,JONATHAN O. COLE and NAOMI F. BELKIN http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/115/523/679
"Discontinuation of Chemotherapy for Chronic Schizophrenics." 1971 Prien RF, Levine J, Switalski RW. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4992967
"Are there schizophrenics for whom drugs may be unnecessary or contraindicated?" 1978 Rappaport M, Hopkins HK, Hall K, Belleza T, Silverman J. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/352976
"Maintenance antipsychotic therapy: is the cure worse than the disease?" 1976 Gardos G, Cole JO. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2021
I ran across a retirement home where thay spiked the OJ with Halperidol.What ever became or prolixin or the " typical" major tranks.? chemical strait jacket with cotton mouth to boot.
I would love to read a blog by that doctor.
ReplyDelete"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
ReplyDeleteHa! I've seen something eerily similar happen to a patient in my ER and the 4 courses unfortunately did not produce the "ommmmm" moment :(
ReplyDeleteBut the leathers and visit from the po po did help.
comfortably numb
ReplyDeleteI'm with the earliest Anonymous -- would love to read a blog by that doc!
ReplyDeleteI guess that's a fuck-ton of Haldol.
ReplyDelete"Nichols and May's 'A Little More Gauze' was what inspired me to go into medicine in the first place."
ReplyDelete"And yet he STILL won't shut up about his political views."
ReplyDeletethen we cold cocked the sucker with a Louisville slugger, so that is why we called the neuro consult.
ReplyDeleteGot to wonder what the guy was smoking before the unpleasantness.
@ Nurse Lilly: a METRIC fuck-ton. Not that fun-sized baggage
ReplyDeleteShould have used Haldol, Ativan, baseball bat, then Neuro consult. Would save two doses of Haldol.
ReplyDeleteMust have been a fun time in the ED that night. Yikes!
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Why waste time in a four year psychiatry residency? Try the haldol mantra. Hasn't that doc heard there are 27 studies showing haldol is neurotoxic
ReplyDeleteFull moon was on Monday Night.
ReplyDeleteNext comes the Propfol drip...
ReplyDeleteI hate purple haloperidol. It's those tardive dyskinesias and the fact that broken teeth and lockjaw is so unpleasant. Dang those ER docs. If Haldol ever invented an aerosol, the shipment would be high-jacked before it would ever reach its destination,though.
ReplyDeleteThe antipsychotic medicine makes people more psychotic in the long term.
ReplyDeleteIt seems paradoxical that drugs that ameliorate acute psychotic symptoms over the short term will increase the likelihood that a person diagnosed with schizophrenia will become chronically ill. But that disturbing fact showed up in the very first outcome studies, and has continued to show up in outcome studies ever since.
"One Year After Discharge: Community Adjustment of Schizophrenic Patients" 1967 NINA R. SCHOOLER; SOLOMON C.GOLDBERG; HELVI BOOTHE; JONATHAN O. COLE . http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=150571
"Relapse in Chronic Schizophrenics following Abrupt Withdrawal of Tranquilizing Medication" 1969 ROBERT F.PRIEN,JONATHAN O. COLE and NAOMI F. BELKIN http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/115/523/679
"Discontinuation of Chemotherapy for Chronic Schizophrenics." 1971 Prien RF, Levine J, Switalski RW. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4992967
"Are there schizophrenics for whom drugs may be unnecessary or contraindicated?" 1978 Rappaport M, Hopkins HK, Hall K, Belleza T, Silverman J. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/352976
"Maintenance antipsychotic therapy: is the cure worse than the disease?" 1976 Gardos G, Cole JO. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2021
I ran across a retirement home where thay spiked the OJ with Halperidol.What ever became or prolixin or the " typical" major tranks.? chemical strait jacket with cotton mouth to boot.
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