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July 05, 2005

Identify neuroleptic malignant syndrome

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Clinical Psychiatry Online, in this month's issue, highlights the uncommon, but deadly side effect of anti-psychotic medications called "NMS", or Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, which is a type of hypothermia (low body temperature) which can be halted immediately by discontinuation of the drug.

The journal article, (written for doctors, but probably understandable to most lay audiences) describes the diagnosis of the problem using the mnemonic "FEVER" (as a memory trigger).

According to this article, FEVER stands for:

Fever. Hyperthermia is often considered NMS’ hallmark and distinguishes it from other acute neuropsychiatric disorders.

Encephalopathy. Patients may abruptly and unexpectedly become confused, obtunded, and disoriented during early or prodomal NMS stages.

Vital sign instability. ...

Enzyme elevation.

Rigidity. Generalized muscle rigidity—frequently described as “lead-pipe” in the literature—is an early and easily identified clinical sign.


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Posted by szadmin at July 5, 2005 11:03 PM

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