A fatality during haloperidol treatment: mechanism of sudden death



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Am J Psychiatry 1981; 138:1616-1617
Copyright © 1981 by American Psychiatric Association

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A fatality during haloperidol treatment: mechanism of sudden death

J Modestin, R Krapf and W Boker

The authors report a case of unexpected sudden death in a woman receiving relatively high dose of haloperidol. They postulate that drug- induced laryngeal spasm leading to cardiac arrest via vagal reflexes may represent the mechanism of neuroleptic sudden death in some cases.

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