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As a psychiatrist, if your client develops neuroleptic malignant syndrome from an antipsychotic they are on, do u treat it? or refer to someone else?
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Yikes: NMS pts don't walk into their psychiatrist's office. They travel in ambulances on their way to ERs and ICUs. NMS is a medical emergency, often fatal if untreated. I can recall only one case I ever saw of NMS actually being treated in an inpatient psych unit rather than a med/surg unit or ICU.
Answered 7/4/2016
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