Discussion

Dr Maggie Brandt (University of Oklahoma): In your amantadine group, you indicated it was physician-specific. Is there some sort of protocol in your institution, such as when you do or do not administer amantadine? Did you look at any of the other medications, like the atypical antipsychotic meds? If they were given amantadine and stopped amantadine, did you put them in the amantadine group, or were they included in the no-amantadine group? Was age a factor? If a patient was over a certain age or under a certain age, could you tell if that had any effect either on whether they received amantadine or what their outcome was? Finally, were you able to follow any of these folks long-term? There is some interesting literature that says amantadine helps in the short term, but long-term end results may not be different.
Source: Surgery - Category: Surgery Source Type: research