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Acute Muscle Dystonia (AMD) due to medication error is rarely reported in the literature. We are reporting a case of adverse drug reaction due to a single dose of haloperidol. Patient was free from any psychiatric illness and still he developed AMD with use of haloperidol because of medication error. The patient recovered completely from AMD symptoms in one hour after receiving the treatment. This case report intends to improve the awareness among clinicians to be cautious while writing the prescriptions.
RESUMO
Modern lifestyle and unfulfilled desires leads to very common diseases of today like anxiety, depression and schizophrenia. Therefore, last one and half decade there has been an exponential rise in the use of psychotropic medication. Antipsychotic polypharmacy is being practiced with increasing frequency. Polypharmacy is one of the leading cause of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in psychiatric patients. In India, pharmacovigilance activity is still in initial stages and there are only few reports available on incidence of ADRs due to psychopharmacological agents (PPAs). Also, India rates below 1% in terms of ADR reporting against the world’s rate of 5%. Very few studies have described patient characteristics and treatment patterns associated with long-term use of the drugs. This prompted us to do evaluation of adverse drug reactions of PPAs in tertiary referral centre for a longer duration. This study was designed to prospectively monitor and analyze the pattern of occurrence of ADRs to PPAs in OPD of our tertiary care hospital. Our further aim was to make causality and severity analysis of psychopharmacological drug reactions.