A Study of Cardiac Outcomes After Droperidol Administration in an Inpatient Psychiatric Cohort.

Purpose/background: Droperidol is an antipsychotic medication used in psychiatric emergencies to manage acute behavioral disturbance. Droperidol use carries a risk of prolonged QT interval on the electrocardiogram and associated cardiac arrhythmias including torsades de pointes and ventricular fibrillation. This study aimed to evaluate the safety of droperidol in adults admitted to the psychiatric inpatient unit of a large Australian hospital.

Psychiatry in Nazi Germany: an ethical analysis and relevance to psychiatry today.

Objective: To investigate the war crimes committed by psychiatrists during the German Nazi regime in the twentieth century and better understand the moral arguments used to justify them.

Method: This article provides a historical review of the crimes committed by psychiatrists in Nazi Germany and ethical analysis from the perspectives of consequentialism and deontology.

Results: Nazi psychiatrists oversaw the death of more than 200,000 people with mental illnesses and inflicted harm on many more.