ABSTRACT
After being the first structure of this type in Belgium, the day hospital "La Clé" from the University of Liège exhibit the modalities of its functioning with some comments. It is considered as a dynamic structure in the view of a intergrated psychiatry. The specificity of the day hospital is discussed.
Subject(s)
Day Care, Medical , Hospitals, Psychiatric/organization & administration , Belgium , Hospitals, Psychiatric/statistics & numerical data , HumansABSTRACT
Forty-one acutely agitated patients received an i.v. injection of 4 ml of a double blind solution containing either 10 mg of droperidol or placebo. The need for further medication (5 mg of haloperidol after 3 minutes or individually adapted psychotropics after 30 minutes) was used as a parameter for the evaluation of the results. Three minutes after the injection, haloperidol was needed by only six out of 19 patients of the droperidol group, but by 19 patients of the control group. Thirty minutes after the first injection, further medication was needed by only four droperidol patients and 10 placebo patients. No side effects could be attributed to the double blind medication.
