Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The addition of lorazepam to haloperidol reduced symptoms of agitated delirium among individuals with advanced ...

Why didn't Rochester police get inside the ambulance and help EMTs transport an allegedly agitated patient to the hospital? That is a key question for investigators looking into ambulance and police ...

A new study found analgesic use decreases agitation in patients with dementia, according to findings published in the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Individual nursing homes ...

"We need to find ways to engage frontline staff in the delivery of nonpharmaceutical interventions, including early preferred music, to achieve the goal of safe and effective management of ...

Emergency departments (EDs) in the U.S. have seen a surge in patient visits for mental health conditions over the past decade. And frequently these visits include episodes of patient agitation, or ...

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Physicians in the emergency department can use oral medications as first-line therapy for agitation, with sedation time and ...

Medical and nursing students at the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) will soon don virtual reality (VR) headsets to learn how to handle patients who ...

May 11 (UPI) --The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced the supplemental approval of Alzheimer's disease drug Rexulti, which treats agitation. Rexulti is an oral tablet that treats ...

BioXcel Therapeutics Inc. announced this month that it has dosed its first patient in a Phase 3 study of its drug candidate for agitation in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The study is evaluating ...

Patients with Lou Gehrig’s disease are angry about the possibility that the first new promising treatment in five years could be kept from them despite clinical evidence pointing to its benefits. The ...

A synthetic form of the active ingredient in cannabis helps reduce agitation in people with Alzheimer's, new research shows. Synthetic THC (dronabinol) also gave patients' caregivers a boost, ...