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Male with history of schizophrenia-orthostatic hypotension


Question: A 76-year-old male with a history of schizophrenia and orthostatic hypotension presents to the clinic from his assisted living facility secondary to bizarre and disorganized behavior. The caregiver reports that since the recent change of the patient's antipsychotic medication, the patient's behavior has progressively deteriorated. The caregiver reports that some of the other patients in the living facility have had success with a drug called thioridazine. Before prescribing this patient thioridazine, based on the patient's history, what should the clinician be concerned about? Need Assignment Help? A. Antiadrenergic effects B. Anti-dopaminergic effects C. Anti-serotonergic effects D. GABA-A allosteric agonism

 

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