Related factors of sudden death in psychiatric inpatients.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Related factors of sudden death in psychiatric inpatients [Keywords:] Sudden death Sudden death that seemingly healthy people or illness have been treated and patients with stable or is improving, the unexpected took place in a very short period of time of non-traumatic death. With the development of treatment technology, new treatments continue to apply to clinical, routine medical activities are increasing the security. Psychiatric inpatients unexpected sudden death, and the resulting rise in medical malpractice was an upward trend year after year, often to great trouble clinical practice, the sudden death of psychiatric inpatients and its related factors in the phenomenon of increasing attention. In recent years, a number of clinical studies at home and abroad, the mentally ill because of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs easily lead to weight gain, obesity, diabetes and other physical disease caused by an increase of coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, the incidence of the brain stem. More combined cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, combined with the application of psychotropic drugs, easy to induce severe arrhythmia and sudden death. This paper review some relevant information on the predictors of sudden death in psychiatric patients and how to reduce sudden death rates are reviewed so that it can actively prevent sudden death in clinical psychiatry. 1 psychotropic drugs on ECG Lead to the direct cause of sudden cardiac death are ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, heart diseases can be observed through the surface ECG to detect and predict sudden death. 1.1 The effects of antipsychotic drugs on ECG classical and non-classical antipsychotics may also lead to adverse cardiac reactions, sometimes quite serious and even sudden death, drug-induced tachycardia to the normal will not be a problem, but the majority of myocardial ischemia can promote