Rapid "Digitalization" of Decompensated Schizophrenic Patients with Antipsychotic Agents
PATRICK T. DONLON M.D.1, and
JOE P. TUPIN M.D.2
1 Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Davis, 2252 45th St., Sacramento, Calif. 95817
2 Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Davis, 2252 45th St., Sacramento, Calif. 95817
The authors describe a method of administering high dosages of the more potent, less sedating antipsychotic drugs to schizophrenic patients to promote the patients' rapid improvement. This method has been effective in keeping the periods of hospitalization of more than 150 schizophrenic patients brief, and the patients have been managed in an open ward community setting.
