Wednesday, April 16, 2014

"Ommmmmmmm..."

Seen in an ER doc's note:



17 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would love to read a blog by that doctor.

Anonymous said...

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

Anonymous said...

Ha! I've seen something eerily similar happen to a patient in my ER and the 4 courses unfortunately did not produce the "ommmmm" moment :(

But the leathers and visit from the po po did help.

NOLAmom said...

comfortably numb

Bobbi said...

I'm with the earliest Anonymous -- would love to read a blog by that doc!

Nurse Lilly said...

I guess that's a fuck-ton of Haldol.

Anonymous said...

"Nichols and May's 'A Little More Gauze' was what inspired me to go into medicine in the first place."

Whelk Lad! said...

"And yet he STILL won't shut up about his political views."

Packer said...

then we cold cocked the sucker with a Louisville slugger, so that is why we called the neuro consult.


Got to wonder what the guy was smoking before the unpleasantness.

EDNurseasauras said...

@ Nurse Lilly: a METRIC fuck-ton. Not that fun-sized baggage

Anonymous said...

Should have used Haldol, Ativan, baseball bat, then Neuro consult. Would save two doses of Haldol.

Must have been a fun time in the ED that night. Yikes!

SkullCandy

Anonymous said...

Why waste time in a four year psychiatry residency? Try the haldol mantra. Hasn't that doc heard there are 27 studies showing haldol is neurotoxic

Anonymous said...

Full moon was on Monday Night.

bobbie said...

Next comes the Propfol drip...

Anonymous said...

I hate purple haloperidol. It's those tardive dyskinesias and the fact that broken teeth and lockjaw is so unpleasant. Dang those ER docs. If Haldol ever invented an aerosol, the shipment would be high-jacked before it would ever reach its destination,though.

Anonymous said...

The antipsychotic medicine makes people more psychotic in the long term.
It seems paradoxical that drugs that ameliorate acute psychotic symptoms over the short term will increase the likelihood that a person diagnosed with schizophrenia will become chronically ill. But that disturbing fact showed up in the very first outcome studies, and has continued to show up in outcome studies ever since.

"One Year After Discharge: Community Adjustment of Schizophrenic Patients" 1967 NINA R. SCHOOLER; SOLOMON C.GOLDBERG; HELVI BOOTHE; JONATHAN O. COLE . http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=150571

"Relapse in Chronic Schizophrenics following Abrupt Withdrawal of Tranquilizing Medication" 1969 ROBERT F.PRIEN,JONATHAN O. COLE and NAOMI F. BELKIN http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/115/523/679

"Discontinuation of Chemotherapy for Chronic Schizophrenics." 1971 Prien RF, Levine J, Switalski RW. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4992967

"Are there schizophrenics for whom drugs may be unnecessary or contraindicated?" 1978 Rappaport M, Hopkins HK, Hall K, Belleza T, Silverman J. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/352976

"Maintenance antipsychotic therapy: is the cure worse than the disease?" 1976 Gardos G, Cole JO. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2021

ken lawson said...

I ran across a retirement home where thay spiked the OJ with Halperidol.What ever became or prolixin or the " typical" major tranks.? chemical strait jacket with cotton mouth to boot.

 
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