Phenothiazine Deaths: A Critical Review

ROGER PEELE and IDELLA S. VON LOETZENAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130, Number 3

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.3.306

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To determine whether "phenothiazine death" is a valid entity, the authors examined case studies in the literature for other explanations of these sudden, unexpected, autopsy-negative deaths. The results of their comparisons of a large number of phenothiazine deaths and deaths due to lethal catatonia raise doubts as to the validity of phenothiazine death as an entity.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130 • Number 3 • March 1973

Pages: 306 - 309

PubMed: 4143945

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Published in print: March 1973

Published online: 1 April 2006

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ROGER PEELE

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IDELLA S. VON LOETZEN

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Director, Area D Community Mental Health Center of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, D.C. 20032 and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Research Associate, Area D Community Mental Health Center of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, D.C. 20032

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Phenothiazine Deaths: A Critical Review

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