Antidepressants
Sertraline, Escitalopram, and Citalopram are members of this drug class.
What are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?
This medication is the drug of choice for the treatment of mania in bipolar disorder.
What is Lithium?
Weight gain and metabolic syndrome are commonly seen ih these antipsychotics.
What are second generation or atypical antipsychotics?
These drug classes are considered first line of treatment in anxiety disorders.
What are SSRIs?
There is an increased risk for agranulocytosis when taking this medication.
What is clozaril?
These neurotransmitters can be increased when taking an antidepressant.
What are norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine?
In addition to treating bipolar disorder, valproic acid, lamotrigine, and gabapentin are also in this drug class.
What are anticonvulsants?
The major uses for antipsychotic drugs are for the treatment of these illnesses.
What is schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, psychosis, bipolar disorders, and severe depression with psychotic features?
This class of anxiety medication can cause dependency.
What are benzodiazepines?
Severe muscle rigidity, diaphoresis, labile pulse and blood pressure, stupor, coma, and death are the symptoms of this severe adverse reaction seen in antipsychotics.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome or NMS?
As antidepressants start to take effect and a patient has more energy the nurse should be concerned about this.
What is suicidality?
This is the therapeutic serum lithium level for acute mania.
What is 0.6-1.2?
Antipsychotic medications help manage delusions, hallucinations, thought disorders, and bizarre behavior, which are classified as these kind of target symptoms.
What are positive symptoms?
These drugs are used off label to treat anxiety through the blocking of central nervous system adrenergic activity.
What are beta blockers and alpha 2 receptor agonists (propranolol and clonidine)?
There is an increase risk of seizures with this antidepressant.
What is bupropion (Wellbutrin)?
A client must avoid foods that are high in Tyramine when taking a medication from this drug class.
What are Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)?
A patient with a lithium level greater than 1.5 will begin to show these signs of toxicity.
What are mild toxicity signs of: blurred vision, confusion, and diarrhea?
Because of a higher side effect profile, nurses must consider this when administering and managing a patient taking antipsychotics.
What is the possibility of non-adherence?
Benzodiazepines are often used to manage withdrawal symptoms from this substance.
What is alcohol?
Tricyclic antidepressants (nortriptyline, amitriptyline, doxepin, etc.) commonly cause these side effects.
What are anticholinergic side effects such as drowsiness, hypotension, dry mouth and urinary retention?
Rapid discontinuation of antidepressants can cause these symptoms.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
Therapeutic serum valproic acid level.
What is 50-125.
These negative symptoms are successfully treated with atypical antipsychotics.
What are affective flattening, alogia- poverty of thought or speech, avolition- lack of motivation, anergia- lack of energy, anhedonia- inability to experience pleasure?
Antidepressants are a frontline treatment for anxiety symptoms for this reason.
What is depression and anxiety are often co-morbid illnesses?
Tongue protrusion and lip smacking are symptoms of this side effect, seen at times in patients taking conventional/1st generation antipsychotics.
What is tardive dyskinesia?