%0 Journal Article
%T Therapeutic management of catatonia
%A Lidia Nica UDANGIU
%A Mona MOLDOVAN
%A Costin ROVENTA
%J Management in Health
%D 2010
%I National Scool of Public Health Management and Professional Development, Bucharest
%X Catatonic states occur in the context of a wide variety of both psychiatric and medical conditions. Since 1992 benzodiazepines represent a first-line treatment in catatonia, because they offer several advantages: a wide margin of safety, a rapid response, and they are easily administered. Other treatments include atypical antipsychotics, antiglutamatergic drugs, lithium. Lorazepam and other GABA-A promoters (benzodiazepines, zolpidem) increase GABA activity as their mechanism of action.
%K catatonia
%K benzodiazepines
%K antipsychotics
%U http://journal.managementinhealth.com/index.php/rms/article/view/149/380