Antipsychotics increase risk of cardiopulmonary arrest in older adults
Sudden cardiac death is a significant concern associated with antipsychotics. Especially if prescribed to older people suffering from dementia. لعبة كريكت For decades, sudden death syndrome – an umbrella term that refers to a series of cardiac syndromes with sudden cardiac arrest and death, has been associated with first generation antipsychotic medications. However, it has become more prominent because of safety reviews concerning the use of second-generation antipsychotic medications.
The United States Food and Drug Administration publicised information about the cardiac fatalities associated with second-generation antipsychotic drugs and the higher mortality rate of the drug when administered to elderly persons with dementia related psychosis. However, a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society states that doctors need to be vary of prescribing antipsychotic medications to older and hospitalised adults. According to the study, it is associated with an increased mortality and cardiopulmonary arrest. Whereas atypical antipsychotics increase the mortality rate in adults 65 years and older. Previous studies conducted in outpatient and long-term care patients have shown an increased risk of sudden death with the use of typical and atypical antipsychotics.
No studies, until now, have particularly studied this association in a general hospital population.
Previous studies in outpatient and long-term care settings have shown an increase in the risk of sudden death with typical and atypical antipsychotics. Matthew Basciotta, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues studied the association between antipsychotics and the risk of cardiopulmonary arrest in hospitalised adults.
Researchers collected data from electronic medical information databases and chart reviews for hospitalisations between the year 2010 and 2016. Patients who were admitted directly to the intensive care unit (ICU) or required psychiatric, gynaecologic and obstetric services were excluded from the study. The primary outcome of the patients during hospitalisation was either death or nonfatal hospitalisation.
The study showed that treatment caused death in 4.5% of the study participants, compared to 2.6% of the participants who were given placebo. Patients treated with both first- and second-generation antipsychotics showed an increase in fatalities. العاب الربح من الانترنت Therefore, before using the agents, it is important to complete a careful workup. Psychosis and mania are the only indications for prescribing the medications. In addition, patients should be evaluated from presence of metabolic diseases and heart abnormalities before prescription. الرهان على سباق الخيل The authors further states that, “while prescribing these medications in elderly patients, physicians must provide individualized clinical, electrocardiographic, and pharmaceutical monitoring”.
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