Mood Stabilizers Flashcards
Best drug for acute mania
Antipsychotics + lithium
DOC rapid cyclers BPD
Valproate
Best drug for depressive phase of BPD
Lemotrizin
Best drug drug for BPD
Lithium
Mood stabilizer having anti suicidal tendency
Lithium
Normal lithium plasma level
0.5-1.2
Lithium toxicity is level?
More than 1.5
At what lithium level tremors appear?
> 2
When we need dialysis in lithium toxicity
More than 5
Risk with lithium in pregnancy
Epstein anomaly
Safe antipsychotic drug in pregnancy
Atypical antipsychotics - Qutiapine
DOC lithium induced diabetes insipidus
Amiloride
When to take the first sample to test lithium?
4th day, morning sample after 12 hours of last dose
Which antidepressants cause cheese rxn?
MaO inhibitors
Mao inhibitors + migraine drugs interaction?
Risk of serotonin syndrome
Best drug to control BP in cheese rxn
Phentolamine
Reversible inhibitor of MaO A
Moclebamide
Irreversible inhibitor of MaO A
Phenelzine
Which tricyclic antidepressant is used for migraine?
Amitriptyline
Which tricyclic antidepressant used for nocturnal enuresis
Imipramine
Which tricyclic antidepressant has risk of EPM
Amoxapine
Commonest SE of TCA
Anticholinergic SE
Sedation
DOC Amitriptyline OD
Soda-bicarb
Longest acting SSRI
Fluoxetine