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Intravenous Droperidol or Olanzapine as an Adjunct to Midazolam for the Acutely Agitated Patient: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial

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Intravenous droperidol or olanzapine as an adjunct to midazolam is effective and decreases the time to adequate sedation compared with midazlam alone.
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This article is published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 101 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Droperidol & Sedation.

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The Safety and Effectiveness of Droperidol for Sedation of Acute Behavioral Disturbance in the Emergency Department.

TL;DR: The study supports the use of high-dose droperidol as a safe sedating agent for patients with acute behavioral disturbance in the ED and shows no evidence of increased risk for QT prolongation with the doses used in this study.
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The Characteristics and Prevalence of Agitation in an Urban County Emergency Department

TL;DR: Agitated patients frequently required restraint and sedation, with significant rates of clinical events requiring intervention, and characteristics associated with a clinical event included delirium symptoms.
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Intramuscular Midazolam, Olanzapine, Ziprasidone, or Haloperidol for Treating Acute Agitation in the Emergency Department.

TL;DR: Intramuscular midazolam achieved more effective sedation in agitated ED patients at 15 minutes than haloperidol, ziprasidone, and perhaps olanzapine.
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Pharmacological Management of Acute Agitation

TL;DR: Current clinical experience and one naturalistic study with intramuscular ziprasidone suggest that it is efficacious and can be safely used in patients with known QTc interval-associated conditions, and these atypical antipsychotics may represent a historical advance in the treatment of acute agitation.
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Droperidol versus haloperidol for chemical restraint of agitated and combative patients

TL;DR: In equal IM doses (5 mg), droperidol results in more rapid control of agitated patients than haloperidol, without any increase in undesirable side effects.
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Rapid tranquillisation of violent or agitated patients in a psychiatric emergency setting. Pragmatic randomised trial of intramuscular lorazepam v. haloperidol plus promethazine.

TL;DR: Both interventions are effective for controlling violent/agitated behaviour and if speed of sedation is required, the haloperidol-promethazine combination has advantages over lorazepam.
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Sedative and analgesic medications: risk factors for delirium and sleep disturbances in the critically ill.

TL;DR: O Ongoing clinical trials should help us to understand whether altering the delivery strategy, via daily sedation interruption, or protocolized target-based sedation or changing sedation paradigms to target different central nervous system receptors can affect cognitive outcomes and sleep preservation in critically ill patients.
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