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Wise et al. Critical Care 2011, 15:453 /content/15/6/453 LET TER Atypical antipsychotics and delirium in critical care Matt P Wise*, Madhankumar Vijayakumar and Steve Bowden See related research by Wan et al., /content/15/3/R159 Wan and colleagues recently reported a case series of ob served increased somnolence and transient hypo ten- patients with refractory delirium successfully treated sion associated with quetiapine administration [1]. with the atypical antipsychotic drug quetia is However, larger studies are required to adequately ass