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Article: Haloperidol may work as delirium prophylaxis.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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LONG BEACH, CALIF. -- So little is known about effective interventions for delirium that efforts to help elderly patients with the condition leave many clinicians, well, delirious.
The goal of treating delirium is not just to control agitation or hallucinations, but to reverse the delirium and thereby mitigate associated morbidity and mortality risks, Dr. Jay S. Luxenberg said at the annual meeting of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine.
"The modern concepts of delirium emphasize that delirium can be a persistent issue for a given patient, persisting months and even years," said Dr. Luxenberg, an internist and geriatrician who is ...