Abstract
We performed the census of psychotropic drugs in the patients hospitalized at the Dpf. of Psychiatry in Hradec Králové on the 1st of February, 2013. The aim of the census was to ascertain whether our treatment is in accordance with the guidelines, and no risk combinations of psychotropics are prescribed.
Fifty-five patients (26 males and 2 9 women) at the average age of 52.5 years were hospitalized at our institution on the day of the census. The patients used 2.1 psychotropic drugs per person on average.
Mood disorders and neurotic and anxiety disorders represented the most frequent diagnostic groups. Antidepressants, especially the dual ones and SSRIs, were the most frequently prescribed psychotropics (36 patients).
Second generation antipsychotics were ordained in 91% of cases of antipsychotic treatment, especially quetiapine and olanzapine. Forty-two per cent of the hospitalized patients received benzodiazepine anxiolytics.
We only provide this type of medication in acute anxiety or agitation for the shortest possible time.