Haloperidol

The daily dose of Dilantin Kapseals and phenytoin suspension are not the same, the actual phenytoin dose of Dilantin Kapseals is 270 mg daily, while the actual phenytoin dose of phenytoin suspension is 150 mg twice daily (300 mg daily). The symptoms that the patient is experiencing might relate to the increase in actual phenytoin dose. If the technique of administering medications with tube feedings is correct, the new phenytoin suspension dose may be changed to take 5.4 mL by mouth twice daily. Rationale: The Dilantin Kapseals is sodium salt form of phenytoin, which contains 27mg phenytoin in a 30 mg capsule. Phenytoin suspension is acid form of phenytoin, which contains 125 mg/5ml phenytoins in 125mg/5ml suspension. The phenytoin drug content…

Essential Tremor A tremor is trembling or shaking that you cannot control. Most tremors affect the hands or arms. Tremors can also affect the head, vocal cords, face, and other parts of the body. Essential tremor is a tremor without a known cause. CAUSES An essential tremor has no known cause. RISK FACTORS You may be at greater risk of essential tremor if: • You have a family member with essential tremor. • You are age 40 years or older. • You take certain medicines.…

Haloperidol and Quetiapine In modern medicine, there are two main groups of antipsychotic medicine such as, conventional antipsychotics (1st generation antipsychotics) and atypical antipsychotics (2nd generation antipsychotics). Haloperidol is a conventional antipsychotic which is used to treat schizophrenia and some other forms of psychosis. Haloperidol was developed in the late 1950s by company Janssen, and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1967. (David A. Williams ) …

the overall effectiveness of 9 second-generation antipsychotics with the first-generation drug, Haloperidol. Due to the limitations of this SSM I will be interpreting results concerning Clozapine and Risperidone exclusively. The comparisons made were regarding efficacy in symptoms, relapse rates, quality of life, side-effects (including EPS and weight gain) and sedation. Both Clozapine and Risperidone had greater efficacy than Haloperidol by 0.52 and 0.13 respectively. This supports the view…

common antipsychotics, haloperidol for typical antipsychotic and olanzapine for an atypical antipsychotic, results will be tabulated across a range of scientific studies to conclude which drug has a better outcome of effectiveness for schizophrenic patients. Using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), the results will be measured between the two types of drugs and their controls or baseline measurements. Subsections of this paper will evaluate the efficacy of haloperidol and…

This paper is a summary of a randomized controlled trial conducted by Joo et al (2015) in which the combination of haloperidol and dexamethasone were used to treat postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in high-risk patients undergoing gynecological laparoscopic surgery. It is understood using low dose haloperidol helps in the prevention of PONV. The study’s purpose was to identify an appropriate dose to use with dexamethasone for prevention of PONV. The study took place in a single…

Epstein-Barr Virus is part of the herpesvirus family and was the first virus discovered to cause a human cancer. The virus has two stages of its life, the latent phase, which allows the virus to lie dormant within a cell and the host. The other stage is the lytic phase in which the virus reproduces and allows the virus to spread among cells. Haloperidol (HPD) aids in the initiation of the lytic cycle. The Haloperidol will be administered at varying concentrations and exposure times. Using…

In table 2 of Ms. Hartling’s research, rates of hospitalization/rehospitalization were significantly higher in the FGAs Haloperidol and Perphenazine versus the SGAs tested, clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, and ziprasidone (Lisa Hartling, 2012, p. 502). FGAs have recently been found to help with depression or bipolar disorder instead of psychosis/ schizophrenia, even though FGAs were originally created for the treatment of psychosis/ schizophrenia. Lisa Hartling states in her…

The neural systems affected include frontal-cortical circuit, limbic system, and basal ganglia-thalamocortical system (Robertson, 2010). Various neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have been implicated. As such, chemotherapy remains the mainstay treatment modality for motor and vocal tics as well as associated behavioral disorders. Dopamine antagonists have proved essential in the management of motor and vocal tics. Some of the agents used include haloperidol, pimozide, tiapride, and…

to understand her mental capacity and respect her wish. However Mary couldn’t provide any reasonable answers, and as she has chronic kidney disease, admitting to the same ward most of the time when she is not well, subsequently staffs and consultant knows Mary’s behaviour well. Mary’s husband also agrees that Mary’s behaviour has changed, requested the doctor to do what is best for Mary and left the ward as he could not see her like this. Considering all this MDT make the decision to carry on…