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Solriamfetol, a medication in this class, like its cousin Wellbutrin, may be helpful for depression but is only FDA-approved for the treatment of certain sleep and wakefulness disorders.
What is norephinephrine and dopamine re-uptake inhibitor?
Celexa should not be used at doses >20 mg po qday for these reasons
What are concurrent use of CYP2C19 inhibitors, age >60, hepatic impairment
Daily Double!: this is a potential dangerous effect of use of celexa >20 mg po qday in patients on CYP2C19 inhibitors
This side-effect is particular common in patents taking Abilify.
What is akathisia?
What are lithium and clozapine?
Pitolisant, the only non-scheduled medication approved by FDA for treatment of narcolepsy may also reduce daytime sleepiness in patients with this disorder.
What is obstructive sleep apnoea?
When treating PTSD in a patient with bipolar disorder, especially one who has declined mood stabiliser therapy, it may be helpful to treat with an SSRI rather than an SNRI due to lower risk of this side-effect.
Treatment Emergent Affective Switch
A patient with chronic headaches, seasonal allergies, and depression, and a penchant for google searching medical information is positive for THC on utox. but tells you it must be a false because he uses this common class of medication.
What are NSAID's?
This is the dose range of abilify recommended for augmentation of anti-depressant therapy for patients with MDD
What is 2-5 mg po qday?
Suicide rates are highest among this age group
What are older persons?
Blonanserin, an atypical anti-psychotic, has demonstrated greater antagonistic activity at the D3 receptor, which may be helpful for these types of symptoms.
What are negative, cognitive, and affective symptoms?
Lower doses of SSRI's may be preferable in elderly as they are at higher risk of this fluid-imbalance disorder secondary to SSRI therapy
What is SIADH?
Diazepam, temazepam, Clorazepate, Chlordiazepoxide, and Halazepam will all cause a positive result for this benzodiazepine on utox.
Oxazepam
What is 900 mg po per day?
These are the four actions which must be proven for a malpractice claim to succeed.
What are Duty, Dereliction, Damages, Direct Causation?
This SNRI has greater potency for norepinephrine reuptake blockade compared to serotonin reuptake blockade (than other SRNI's) and may therefore be more effective in treating fibromyalgia and chronic pain.
What are patients with "atypical depression" with sx including hypersomnia, hyperphagia, low energy, mood reactivity) and those with recent myocardial infarction (lowest cardiac risk)
This metabolite indicates concurrent use of alcohol and cocaine and is responsible for the increased cardiac toxicity of cocaine when used in combination with alcohol.
What is cocaethylene?
Approximately this percentage of people with borderline personality disorder will attempt suicide over the life-course.
What is 70%?
What is its "ultra-long half-life" (much longer than 24 hours) compared to any other benzodiazepine.
Daily Double!: The long-half life may also decrease the likelihood of these risks of benzodiazepine therapy.
What is a hallucinogen?
The dosage range for second-generation anti-psychotic is quite broad, from __ to ___.
What is seroquel at 50mg po qday to 300 mg po qday
A study on the effects of Connecticut's red flag law on suicide rates did not reveal a clear benefit of the law for this reason.
The reduction in firearm-associated suicides was smaller than the concurrent increase in non-firearm-related suicides.