If you could only choose five psychotropic medicines: updating the interagency emergency health kit

PLoS Med. 2011 May;8(5):e1001030. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001030. Epub 2011 May 3.

Abstract

Mark van Ommeren and colleagues describe how they chose five psychotropic medicines to add to the Interagency Emergency Health Kit, which is a box with medicines and medical supplies designed to help people in major humanitarian emergencies.

MeSH terms

  • Amitriptyline / supply & distribution
  • Anti-Anxiety Agents / supply & distribution
  • Cholinergic Antagonists / supply & distribution
  • Diazepam / supply & distribution
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency Medical Services*
  • Emergency Treatment
  • Haloperidol / supply & distribution
  • Nervous System Diseases / drug therapy*
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / supply & distribution*
  • Phenobarbital / supply & distribution
  • Psychotropic Drugs / supply & distribution*

Substances

  • Anti-Anxiety Agents
  • Cholinergic Antagonists
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations
  • Psychotropic Drugs
  • Amitriptyline
  • Haloperidol
  • Diazepam
  • Phenobarbital