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Discussion:NMS in Elderly• Increasingly Found in Elderly1. Increased use of neuroleptics & otherdopamine affecting drugs to treat psychiatric &non-psychiatric conditions in elderly due toageing population- Anti-psychotics for psychiatric conditions- Anti-psychotics: off label use for dementia / delirium- Metoclopramide & promethazine for anti-emetics &droperidol for sedation- <strong>Do</strong>paminergic agents for ParkinsonismNeuroleptic Malignant Syndrome in the Elderly. Clinical Geriatrics, Volume 14,Number 5, May, 2006.

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