The effectiveness of paliperidone palmitate at the stage of stabilizing treatment of schizophrenia in the outpatient department. Clinical observation

Abstract

Currently, an increasing aspect in the provision of psychiatric care is shifting towards the outpatient link. After the stage of stopping therapy, it is rational to carry out the stage of stabilizing therapy in the conditions of a day hospital or outpatient department. The article presents a clinical observation when, as a result of errors in receiving supportive therapy, the patient ended up in a hospital with developed attacks of schizophrenia and after long-term treatment was discharged with residual psychotic symptoms, indicating resistance and an increase in the defect. However, the use of paliperidone palmitate * in submaximal doses in the outpatient department allowed him to stabilize his condition, restore his social and labor status, and re-transfer to maintenance therapy in medium therapeutic doses.