Background Psychomotor agitation is associated with different psychiatric conditions and
represents an important issue in psychiatry. Current recommendations on agitation in …

Background: Agitation is a common behavioral emergency associated with high risk of injury
to patients and health care professionals. There are a wide variety of approaches to …

Objectives: To compare the efficacy of sedation, need for rescue sedation, rates of
respiratory depression, and complications of droperidol, ziprasidone, and midazolam when …

One approach to manage people with behaviours of concern including agitated or
aggressive behaviours in health care settings is through the use of fast‐acting medication …

See related articles, p. 791 and p. 797. Research can produce false-positive results just as
can diagnostic tests. Uncontrolled studies have a specificity of only 11%, versus 88% for …

Background The optimal agent to treat acute agitation in the emergency department (ED)
has not been determined. The objective of this study was to compare the effectiveness and …

Study objective: Droperidol is a butyrophenone commonly used as an antiemetic and
antipsychotic in the United States since US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in …

Background People experiencing acute psychotic illnesses, especially those associated
with agitated or violent behaviour, may require urgent pharmacological tranquillisation or …

Background. There are no published reports examining the effects that ketamine
administered prior to hospital arrival has on patients after their transfer to the emergency …

Objective: To present the essential guidelines for pharmacological management of patients
with psychomotor agitation in Brazil. Methods: This is a systematic review of articles …