Rapid tranquillisation in psychiatric emergency settings in Brazil: pragmatic randomised controlled trial of intramuscular haloperidol versus intramuscular haloperidol plus promethazine
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Rapid tranquillisation in psychiatric emergency settings in Brazil: pragmatic randomised controlled trial of intramuscular haloperidol versus intramuscular haloperidol plus promethazine.
OBJECTIVE To determine whether haloperidol alone results in swifter and safer tranquillisation and sedation than haloperidol plus promethazine. DESIGN Pragmatic randomised open trial (January-July 2004). SETTING Psychiatric emergency room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PARTICIPANTS 316 patients who needed urgent intramuscular sedation because of agitation, dangerous behaviour, or both. INTERV...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39339.448819.ae