A fatality during haloperidol treatment: mechanism of sudden death
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 138 (12) , 1616-1617
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.12.1616
Abstract
A case of unexpected sudden death in a woman with chronic paranoid schizophrenia receiving relatively high doses of haloperidol is reported. Drug-induced laryngeal spasm leading to cardiac arrest via vagal reflexes may represent the mechanism of neuroleptic sudden death in some cases.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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