Q; Why Haldol (Haloperidol) should be use with caution in burn patients?
Answer: The burn patient may be more prone to extrapyramidal symptoms of Haldol because of increased sensitivity of skeletal muscle neuromuscular junctions to acetylcholine after thermal injury.
Looks like this pearl repeated the old one that was already posted.
ReplyDeleteInteresting purported mechanism.... Are ExtraPyramidal Symptoms mediated at he NMJ? I thought it was central.......
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