I am interested to know the variety of ways list members restrain agitated
and combative patients when using pharmacological agents.
Droperidol was shown in a 1992 annals paper to give more rapid control than
haloperidol when given IM (no difference IV) in a randomised double blind
prospective study but droperidol is no longer available.
Do list members use haloperidol or diazepam (?) or lorazepam (?) first up?
or another agent ? IV or IM ?
(with due respect to reversible causes such as hypoxia etc first, of
course)
John Ryan
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