Acute Agitation

Best practices in managing child and adolescent behavioral health emergencies

Management of pediatric agitation and aggression: Lessons learned from the national consensus pediatric BETA guidelines

Implementing clinical pathways for acute behavioral health issues in pediatric medical settings

The Expert Consensus Guideline Series. Treatment of behavioral emergencies

A Retrospective Review of Antipsychotic Medications Administered to Psychiatric Patients in a Tertiary Care Pediatric Emergency Department

Safety and effectiveness of physostigmine: a 10-year retrospective review*

Pediatric patients with behavioral emergencies: Who's coming in and what happens while they're here?

Executive summary: Evaluation and management of children and adolescents with acute mental health or behavioral problems. Part I: Common clinical challenges of patients with mental health and/or behavioral emergencies

Seattle Primary Care Principles for Child Mental Health

Intranasal Lorazepam for Treatment of Severe Agitation in a Pediatric Behavioral Health Patient in the Emergency Department

Switching to clonidine transdermal patches in four paediatric cases: Strategies benefits and challenges

An audit of anti-psychotic use on a general adult intensive care unit

A research agenda for assessment and management of psychosis in emergency department patients

Psychiatric Outcomes of Patients With Severe Agitation Following Administration of Prehospital Ketamine

Drug use in adolescents attending the emergency department for mental health problems

Pharmacologic Management of Agitation and Aggression in a Pediatric Emergency Department - A Retrospective Cohort Study

Factors associated with intubation and capnographically proven apnea in patients treated with intramuscular ketamine for prehospital agitation

Neuroleptic prescribing and monitoring practices in pediatric inpatient medical and psychiatric settings

PLACID study: A randomized trial comparing the efficacy and safety of inhaled loxapine versus intramuscular aripiprazole in acutely agitated patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

The use and effectiveness of pro re nata psychotropic medications in children and adolescents: A systematic review

The use, safety, and efficacy of olanzapine in a pediatric emergency department over a 10-year period

Prehospital ketamine use by paramedics in the Australian Capital Territory: A 12 month retrospective analysis

Ketamine reduces the need for intubation in patients with acute severe mental illness and agitation requiring transport to definitive care: An observational study

Psychiatric polypharmacy, etiology and potential consequences

Managing adolescent behavioural and mental health problems in the Emergency Department

Piloting a comprehensive, familycentered resource for the management of pediatric agitation and aggression in pediatric emergency and inpatient psychiatry

Factors associated with agitation in a pediatric emergency room

Prehospital Ketamine is a Safe and Effective Treatment for Excited Delirium in a Community Hospital Based EMS System

A prospective study of ketamine versus haloperidol for severe prehospital agitation

Lurasidone for the Treatment of Irritability Associated with Autistic Disorder

Comparison of risperidone and aripiprazole in the treatment of preschool children with disruptive behavior disorder and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder: A randomized clinical trial

Behavioral Health Clinical Pathway CHOP

Challenges of Managing Pediatric Mental Health Crises in the Emergency Department

Ketamine use for acute agitation in the emergency department

How to manage agitation and aggression in emergency service

Aripiprazole use in children and adolescents: A public hospital child psychiatry outpatient department's experience

Pharmacologic management of the agitated child

A single-dose, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of sublingual asenapine for acute agitation

Intravenous droperidol or olanzapine as an adjunct to midazolam for the acutely agitated patient: a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial

A novel agent for agitated delirium: A case series of ketamine utilization in the emergency department (ED)

Efficacy and tolerability of aripiprazole in a daily practice outpatient population of child and adolescent

Adverse drug reactions in psychiatry outpatients: Clinical spectrum, causality and avoidability

Long-term effectiveness of flexibly dosed paliperidone extended-release: comparison among patients with schizophrenia switching from risperidone and other antipsychotic agents

Long-term efficacy and tolerability of perospirone for young help-seeking people at clinical high risk: A preliminary open trial

Comparison of the safety and efficacy of ketamine versus olanzapine for sedation of violent agitated patients in a community emergency department

Ketamine sedation for patients with acute agitation and psychiatric illness requiring aeromedical retrieval

Dexmedetomidine for transport of a spontaneously breathing combative child

Correlating CRAFFT, PHQ-9, and SSF scores in adolescent psychiatric inpatients

Effect of nicotine replacement therapy on agitation in smokers with schizophrenia: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study

Adjunctive low-dose aripiprazole with standard-dose sertraline in treating fresh major depressive disorder: a randomized, double-blind, controlled study

Safety and tolerability of aripiprazole for irritability in pediatric patients with autistic disorder: a 52-week, open-label, multicenter study

A randomized, double-blind study of paliperidone extended-release in treatment of acute schizophrenia in adolescents

Pharmacological management of the agitated pediatric patient

Comparison of risperidone orodispersible tablet and intramuscular haloperidol in the treatment of acute psychotic agitation: a randomized open, prospective study

Dyskinesia in nave children and adolescents treated with olanzapine, risperidone and quetiapine: Three months follow up

Double-blind randomized trial of risperidone versus divalproex in pediatric bipolar disorder

Droperidol use in pediatric emergency department patients

A non-randomized, Open study with aripiprazole and ziprasidone for the treatment of aggressive behavior in youth in a community clinic

Conventional intramuscular sedatives versus ziprasidone for severe agitation in adolescents: case-control study

More questions than answers! Clinical dilemmas in psychopharmacology in pregnancy and lactation

Pharmacogenetics of acute treatment of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents

Agitation treatment for pediatric emergency patients

A double-blind placebo controlled trial of piracetam added to risperidone in patients with autistic disorder

Use of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines in patients with psychiatric emergencies: results of an observational trial

Oral risperidone, olanzapine and quetiapine versus haloperidol in psychotic agitation

Ketamine for prehospital use: new look at an old drug

A prospective 6-month analysis of the naturalistic use of aripiprazole - Factors predicting favourable outcome

Randomized clinical trial comparing intravenous midazolam and droperidol for sedation of the acutely agitated patient in the emergency department

A pilot, open-label safety study of quetiapine for treatment of moderate psychotic agitation in the emergency setting

Antidepressant side effects in children and adolescents

Advances in psychotropic formulations

Randomized clinical trial comparing intravenous midazolam and droperidol for sedation of the acutely agitated patient in the emergency department

An unusual case of subterfuge in the emergency department: covert administration of antipsychotic and anxiolytic medications to control an agitated patient

Treatment of aggression with risperidone in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder: a case series

Risperidone versus haloperidol, in combination with lorazepam, in the treatment of acute agitation and psychosis: a pilot, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Management of acute undifferentiated agitation in the emergency department: a randomized double-blind trial of droperidol, ziprasidone, and midazolam

Rapid-acting IM ziprasidone in a psychiatric emergency service: a naturalistic study

The psychopharmacologic treatment of violent youth

Fluoxetine, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and their combination for adolescents with depression: Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS) randomized controlled trial

A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of paroxetine in children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder

Emergency department presentations of naltrexone-accelerated detoxification

Pharmacological management of agitation in emergency settings

Evaluation of droperidol in the acutely agitated child or adolescent

Prehospital sedation with intramuscular droperidol: A one-year pilot

A comparison of intramuscular ketamine with high dose intramuscular midazolam with and without intranasal flumazenil in children before suturing

Olanzapine: an updated review of its use in the management of schizophrenia