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#375 Delirium in the Hospital featuring Dr. Esther Oh

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Do Anti-Psychotics Reduce Delirium Seriousness?

The first thing that I try to do is see if there's a staff member, so patient safety attendant who can be with the patient and just kind of reorient them. We do not recommend anti-psychotic use for prevention treatment of delirium. If patients safety or staff member safety is in question as in like they could harm someone, I think medication uses indicated. So one thing that you can do is olerenzapine comes in disintegrating tablet. They would just like dissolve. And but it comes in five milligrams. The idea is that for whatever you're using, you want to use less side effect and lower frequency.

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