[Treatment of immediate post-operative agitation (author's transl)]

Though organic causes and operative factors can produce post-operative agitation, a background of anxiety, alcoholism, or neurosis plays a major role in its development. Excellent results were obtained with tiapride in 58 patients with post-operative agitated states. Local and general tolerance were both excellent. Furthermore, an association of tiapride-corticoids was effective in treating post-anaesthetic spasm of the glottis.