Multiple Choice
During a psychiatric emergency, a patient is given a traditional antipsychotic drug intramuscularly and placed in seclusion. Over the next 2 hours, concerns for safety and physiologic stability require that the patient be carefully monitored for:
A) tardive dyskinesia.
B) gastrointestinal hyperactivity.
C) drug-induced parkinsonian movements.
D) orthostatic hypotension and cardiac arrhythmias.
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