This case report highlights the risk of severe cardiac complications, including cardiopulmonary arrest, associated with haloperidol use.
Alerts clinicians to possible haloperidol arrest risk; single case leaves open causality and incidence.
Haloperidol is an antipsychotic which is widely used in emergency and psychiatry units. Sometimes, it is encountered some serious complications associated with haloperidol use, particularly haloperidol induced cardiac ones. In literature, life-threatening arrhythmias have been reported as case reports. Here, we report a case who had haloperidol-induced cardiopulmonary arrest. [PBS 2016; 6(1.000): 29-31]
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