Modestin J, Krapf R, Böker W
Am J Psychiatry. 1981 Dec;138(12):1616-7. doi: 10.1176/ajp.138.12.1616.
The authors report a case of unexpected sudden death in a woman receiving relatively high dose of haloperidol. They postulate that drug-induced laryngeal spasm leading to cardiac arrest via vagal reflexes may represent the mechanism of neuroleptic sudden death in some cases.
