PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Robyn Pauline Thom
AU  - Clare Kelleher Mock
AU  - Polina Teslyar
TI  - Delirium in hospitalized patients: Risks and benefits of antipsychotics
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.84a.16077
DP  - 2017 Aug 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 616--622
VI  - 84
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/84/8/616.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/84/8/616.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2017 Aug 01; 84
AB  - Consensus panel guidelines advocate for the judicious use of antipsychotic drugs to manage delirium in hospitalized patients when nonpharmacologic measures fail and the patient is in significant distress from symptoms, poses a safety risk to self or others, or is impeding essential aspects of his or her medical care. Here, we review the use of haloperidol, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, and aripiprazole for this purpose.