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- The Clinical Use of Antipsychotic Plasma Levels
- Reviews
- The Clinical Use of Antipsychotic Plasma Levels
- Copyright page
- Half title page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface: How to Use This Handbook and Useful Tables for Handy Reference
- Introduction
- 1 Sampling Times for Oral and Long-Acting Injectable Agents
- 2 The Therapeutic Threshold and the Point of Futility
- 3 Level Interpretation Including Laboratory Reporting Issues, Responding to High Plasma Levels, Special Situations (Hepatic Dysfunction, Renal Dysfunction and Hemodialysis, Bariatric Surgery)
- 4 Tracking Oral Antipsychotic Adherence
- 5 What Is an Adequate Antipsychotic Trial? Using Plasma Levels to Optimize Psychiatric Response and Tolerability
- 6 Important Concepts about First-Generation Antipsychotics
- 7 Haloperidol and Haloperidol Decanoate
- 8 Fluphenazine and Fluphenazine Decanoate
- 9 Perphenazine and Perphenazine Decanoate
- 10 Zuclopenthixol and Zuclopenthixol Decanoate; Flupenthixol and Flupenthixol Decanoate
- 11 Chlorpromazine, Loxapine, Thiothixene, Trifluoperazine
- 12 Important Concepts about Second-Generation Antipsychotics
- 13 Clozapine
- 14 Risperidone Oral and Long-Acting Injectable; Paliperidone Oral and Long-Acting Injectable
- 15 Olanzapine and Olanzapine Pamoate
- 16 Aripiprazole, Aripiprazole Monohydrate, and Aripiprazole Lauroxil
- 17 Amisulpride, Asenapine, Lurasidone, Brexpiprazole, Cariprazine
- Appendix Therapeutic Threshold, Point of Futility, AGNP/ASCP Laboratory Alert Level, and Average Oral Concentration–Dose Relationships
- Index
- References
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2021
- The Clinical Use of Antipsychotic Plasma Levels
- Reviews
- The Clinical Use of Antipsychotic Plasma Levels
- Copyright page
- Half title page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface: How to Use This Handbook and Useful Tables for Handy Reference
- Introduction
- 1 Sampling Times for Oral and Long-Acting Injectable Agents
- 2 The Therapeutic Threshold and the Point of Futility
- 3 Level Interpretation Including Laboratory Reporting Issues, Responding to High Plasma Levels, Special Situations (Hepatic Dysfunction, Renal Dysfunction and Hemodialysis, Bariatric Surgery)
- 4 Tracking Oral Antipsychotic Adherence
- 5 What Is an Adequate Antipsychotic Trial? Using Plasma Levels to Optimize Psychiatric Response and Tolerability
- 6 Important Concepts about First-Generation Antipsychotics
- 7 Haloperidol and Haloperidol Decanoate
- 8 Fluphenazine and Fluphenazine Decanoate
- 9 Perphenazine and Perphenazine Decanoate
- 10 Zuclopenthixol and Zuclopenthixol Decanoate; Flupenthixol and Flupenthixol Decanoate
- 11 Chlorpromazine, Loxapine, Thiothixene, Trifluoperazine
- 12 Important Concepts about Second-Generation Antipsychotics
- 13 Clozapine
- 14 Risperidone Oral and Long-Acting Injectable; Paliperidone Oral and Long-Acting Injectable
- 15 Olanzapine and Olanzapine Pamoate
- 16 Aripiprazole, Aripiprazole Monohydrate, and Aripiprazole Lauroxil
- 17 Amisulpride, Asenapine, Lurasidone, Brexpiprazole, Cariprazine
- Appendix Therapeutic Threshold, Point of Futility, AGNP/ASCP Laboratory Alert Level, and Average Oral Concentration–Dose Relationships
- Index
- References
Summary
Antipsychotics have numerous evidence-based uses in the twenty-first century, including schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, unipolar major depression, behavioral disturbances of autism, tic disorders, and obsessive compulsive disorder [1]. The application of antipsychotic therapy in many of these conditions is adjunctive, and it may be withdrawn during less active phases of the illness. For patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, antipsychotics are the foundation of treatment without which the patient is at risk for relapse, and the attendant psychiatric, social, and legal consequences [2, 3]. Given the level of disability often encountered with the onset of illness, the care and management of individuals with schizophrenia exerts a significant economic toll on society [4–6]; moreover, this burden accrues most directly to families and direct caregivers in the form of financial loss compounded by stress and decreased quality of life [7, 8]. Of particular concern are the disproportionate direct and indirect costs associated with treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) [4] (see Figure 0.1).
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- The Clinical Use of Antipsychotic Plasma LevelsStahl's Handbooks, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021