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Loxapineforagitationin Psychiatric Patients Who Consultin Emergency Medical Services
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
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Introduction
The DSM-5 defines psychomotor agitation as excessive motor activity associated with a feeling of inner tension. The activity is usually nonproductive and repetitious and consists of behaviors such as pacing, fidgeting, wringing of the hands, pulling of clothes, and inability to sit still. This kind of behavoir occurs in up to 25% of psychiatrics patients who consult in emergency medical services.
Objective
The main objective was to determine the efficacy of loxapine inhalation powder in acute agitation.
Methods
Ten agitated psychiatric patients scored Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale – Excited Component (P aNSS-EC) baseline and ten minutes after the administration ofaD aSUVE®.
Results
The efficacy of loxapine 10 mg in the acute treatment of agitation was established in a short-term (10 minutes).
Conclusions
Loxapine is the first and only orally inhaled medication for the acute treatment of agitation associated with psychiatrics disorders, which is a tool easy-to-use in emergency medical services.
Disclosure of interest
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
- Type
- EV618
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S441
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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