Agents with significant MSA include propranolol, acebutolol, betaxolol, and oxprenolol.
propranolol: membrane stabilizing activity
Agents with significant MSA include propranolol, acebutolol, betaxolol, and oxprenolol.
propranolol: membrane stabilizing activity
triad
triad of serotonin syndrome: altered mental status, neuromuscular abnormalities, autonomic hyperactivity
Differentiating PGD from MDD
differentiating PGD from MDD
Multiple factors appear to increase the risk of PGD, including depression, anxiety disorders, current substance use/abuse, multiple losses, particularly stressful circumstances surrounding the death, lack of social supports, uncertainty about the death, and the unavailability of usual mourning rituals.
depression, anxiety disorders, current substance use/abuse, multiple losses, particularly stressful circumstances surrounding the death, lack of social supports, uncertainty about the death, the unavailability of usual mourning rituals
lasts well beyond the period expected by social and cultural norms (6 months in ICD-11 and 1 year in DSM-5-TR)
1 year in DSM-5-TR
response to bereavement
Grief is the natural response to bereavement, and includes thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and physiologic reactions.
the situation
Bereavement is the situation in which someone who is close dies.
They defined a Polarity Index value greater than 1.0 as having a relative greater antimanic prophylactic efficacy, whereas a value less than 1.0 would have a relative greater antidepressive efficacy.
polarity index
consider acamprosate in patients with abstinence at treatment initiation and are motivated to maintain abstinence liver disease current treatment with opioids for pain (contraindication to naltrexone) or opioid addiction polypharmacy or multiple comorbid medical issues, because acamprosate has no significant interactions with other drugs
acamprosate indication