Acute laryngeal dystonia: a persisting psychiatric emergency.

CONCLUSION: Clinicians should take into account recent sedation and ongoing antipsychotic use in patients at risk of developing acute laryngeal dystonia. Awareness of this condition and prompt treatment with parenteral anticholinergic medication can be lifesaving. PMID: 27145799 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27145799?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - May 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: May R, Al-Taie A, Garg V Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research

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