Saturday, September 25, 2010

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.

2 comments:

  1. Looks like this pearl repeated the old one that was already posted.

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  2. Interesting purported mechanism.... Are ExtraPyramidal Symptoms mediated at he NMJ? I thought it was central.......

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