[Medical procedure with aggressive patients: experiences of psychiatric clinic in Wroclaw].

In retrospective research--frequency of aggression among the patients admitted to the Department of Psychiatry in Wroclaw in 1992 was estimated about 8.2% from all the patients. Aggressive events were more frequent among the female patients. The most common group of drugs used in order to settle down the patients was benzodiazepines regardless of origin of aggression. In terms of type of disorder aggression was more likely to occur in schizophrenia, then Clopixol-acuphase was used as the most effective drug. Restraining was one of the unavoidable method in several cases but as the only one method it was used in 13% of cases.