Les neuroleptiques dans une unité de psychiatrie pour sujets âgés de plus de 60 ans : étude de leur prescription, règles de bon usage

The treatment of elderly patients requires daily careful management and monitoring because of their polypathology, polymedication and of their greater sensitivity to the toxic effects of drugs.On March 9, 2004 the French Agency of Medical Safety of the Products of Health issued a press release relating to the safety of the use of antipsychotics for patients suffering from dementia.This article presents a study undertaken in a psychogeriatric unit of a Department of General Psychiatry, in the University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand. The purpose of this study was to highlight the evolution of antipsychotic prescriptions among patients suffering from dementia before and after the press release publication.In a more general way, an analysis of the prescriptions of antipsychotics in elderly patients was also carried out.This study led to the elaboration, concurrently with the department of pharmacy, of a form for the antipsychotic prescriptions of elderly patients suffering or not from dementia.     

Donor characteristics do not influence transfusion-related acute lung injury incidence in a secondary analysis of two case-control studies

Objective

To investigate the relation between donor characteristics and TRALI incidence.