What are the guidelines and safeguards for administering IV Haloperidol for treatment of delirium?

Search of CINAHL and PubMed on the concepts of holoperidol administration and dementia produced the following studies and reviews.

Mac Sweeney, R A national survey of the management of delirium in UK intensive care units. QJM 2010 vol:103 iss:4 pg:243 -251

Girard, Timothy Feasibility, efficacy, and safety of antipsychotics for intensive care unit delirium: the MIND randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Critical care medicine 2010 vol:38 iss:2 pg:428 -437

Balas, Michele, Free your MIND and the rest will follow: decoding delirium in the intensive care unit.
Critical care medicine 2010 vol:38 iss:2 pg:697 -698

Joffe, Aaron Why all the confusion about confusion? Critical care medicine 2010 vol:38 iss:2 pg:695 -696

van den Boogaard, Mark Implementation of a delirium assessment tool in the ICU can influence haloperidol use.
Critical care 2009 vol:13 iss:4 pg:R131 -R131

Page, Valerie, Tackling agitated delirium–the tip of the iceberg. Critical care 2009 vol:13 iss:3 pg:158 -158

Reade, Michael, Dexmedetomidine vs. haloperidol in delirious, agitated, intubated patients: a randomised open-label trial. Critical care 2009 vol:13 iss:3 pg:R75 -R75

Campbell, Noll Pharmacological management of delirium in hospitalized adults–a systematic evidence review.
Journal of general internal medicine 2009 vol:24 iss:7 pg:848 -853

Caplan, Jason, Haloperidol and delirium: management or treatment? Critical care medicine 2009 vol:37 iss:1 pg:354 -355

Gagnon, Pierre Treatment of delirium in supportive and palliative care. Current opinion in supportive and palliative care 2008 vol:2 iss:1 pg:60 -66

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