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14 Cards in this Set
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What is the brand name of lithium? What is therapeutic range of lithium? What are some side effects? At what concentrations do you have toxicity? What should you monitor in a patient taking lithium? How is lithium cleared? What drugs should you avoid with lithium? |
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What is bipolar disorder classified as? |
Bipolar I and Bipolar II |
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What do the different bipolar disorder classifications differ by primarily? |
Severity of mania the pt experiences |
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What are the bipolar classifications and definitions of: bipolar I, bipolar II, bipolar depression, psychosis |
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What is the diagnostic criteria for mania? |
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In bipolar disorder, what is the goal of treatment? What are traditional mood stabilizers used to treat? What are some examples of traditional mood stabilizers? Antipsychotics can help stabilize the mood when the patient also has what? Patients with bipolar disorder are more susceptible to what and what class of anti-psychotics has the highest incidence of these events? What can antidepressants induce and when are they generally recommended? What should be considered when selecting drug treatment? What is the first line treatment for a patient in a manic state? What is first line treatment for bipolar depression? |
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What medication is used in bipolar depression and for maintenance treatment, but is not useful for acute mania? |
Lamotrigine |
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Why should lamotrigine be titrated slowly? What two medications are used for bipolar mania? What is commonly used for mania, bipolar depression and maintenance? Med guides are required with what two classes of medications and why? In pregnancy it is important to be able to identify and avoid medications that have what kind of effects? |
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Why should lamotrigine be titrated slowly? What two medications are used for bipolar mania? What is commonly used for mania, bipolar depression and maintenance? Med guides are required with what two classes of medications and why? In pregnancy it is important to be able to identify and avoid medications that have what kind of effects? Valproate acid exposure in pregnancy is associated with what? Carbamazepine exposure in pregnancy is associated with what? What medication when taken while pregnant is associated with increased congenital cardiac malformation‘s and other abnormalities? What mood stabilizer is safer in pregnancy relative to the rest? What medication has the most favorable safety profile in pregnancy, and is approved for bipolar depression? |
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Name three anti-elliptic drugs. Know the brand names. |
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Name 6 second generation antipsychotics and their brand names. |
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What do lithium levels increase with? What do the lithium levels decrease with? What medications or medication classes increase the risk of serotonin syndrome if taken with lithium? |
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What are some important counseling points for patients taking lithium? What should you counsel a patient taking lithium who is also breast-feeding? |
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Lithium is not easy to initiate, what are some common side effects, suggestions to help the patient, and dosages to know? |
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