Key result
Haloperidol use was associated with sudden cardiac arrest in a reported case from India.
Why the study?
Cardiopulmonary arrest related to haloperidol use is rarely reported, and no such cases had been reported in India.
Case Report (n=1)
No
Haloperidol use can be associated with sudden cardiac arrest, a rare but life-threatening adverse event.
Alerts to rare haloperidol-associated arrest risk in case reports; hypothesis-generating and leaves causality and generalizability open.
Haloperidol is a typical antipsychotic drug. This drug is still widely used in emergency medicine, psychiatry, and general medicine departments. It is mostly used for acute confusional state, psychotic disorders, agitation, delirium, and aggressive behaviour. Overdose of haloperidol can cause sudden deaths. Cardiopulmonary arrest related to use of haloperidol had been reported in literature as case reports but are very few. No such cases have been reported in India till now. We report a case of cardiac arrest due to the use of haloperidol.
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Dar et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Cardiac arrest (n=1). Haloperidol was evaluated on Cardiac arrest. Haloperidol use was associated with sudden cardiac arrest in a reported case from India.
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