Julie Rivière, Roos C van der Mast, Joris Vandenberghe, Filip Van Den Eede
BACKGROUND: Although haloperidol is the most widely used drug in the treatment of delirium, evidence on the relevance of atypical antipsychotics (AAPs) is growing. OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on the efficacy and tolerability of AAPs in the treatment of delirium. METHODS: A systematic search of the literature published before April 2018 was performed on PubMed using the following search strings: "Delirium" and "Atypical antipsychotics", "Novel antipsychotics", "New antipsychotics", "Quetiapine", "Olanzapine", "Aripiprazole", "Risperidone", "Paliperidone", "Clozapine", "Asenapine", "Iloperidone", "Amisulpiride", "Ziprasidone", "Zotepine", "Sertindole", "Lurasidone" or "Perospirone"...
2019: Psychosomatics