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Acute cardiometabolic adverse effects during treatment with haloperidol in elderly patients

Withdrawn
Conditions
adverse effect
10012221
Registration Number
NL-OMON38934
Lead Sponsor
Tergooiziekenhuizen Hilversum
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Withdrawn
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
150
Inclusion Criteria

Age 70 years or older.
Admitted for a hip fracture or other fall- related fracture on the department of Surgery or Orthopaedics.
Inclusion within 24 hours after admission on the department.
The patient or representative speaks either Dutch or English.
Patient or representative must be able to give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

Use of an antipsychotic agent within 90 days before hospital admission.
Patient is not undergoing surgery for the hip fracture or other fall- related fracture.
Start or dose changes in the following medication in the 14 days before admission:
Thrombocyte aggregation inhibitors
QT- prolongating drugs
Antidiabetic drugs
Antihypertensive drugs
Cholesterol- lowering drugs
Additional for recording a holter electrocardiogram (ECG) for patients in subgroup 1:
History of pacemaker implantation, atrial fibrillation, bundle branch block, congenital QT- syndrome.
Use of QT prolongating drugs (CERT list 1 www.azcert.org) in the 14 days before admission.

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational invasive
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>a. Serum level of fastening glucose (mmol/l). b. QT interval measured by<br /><br>(holter) ECG using Fridericia*s formula . </p><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>1. Serum level of triglycerides (mmol/l). 2. Closure time (sec), measured by<br /><br>Platelet Functional Analyser (PFA-100). 3. Serum concentration haloperidol (µg/<br /><br>L). 4. Daily defined dose, total antipsychotic exposure in haloperidol users.<br /><br>5. Genetic polymorphisms at D2 receptor, serotonin 2c receptor,<br /><br>methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), NUBPL and NOS1AP genes. </p><br>
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