The Clozapine Handbook: Stahl's Handbooks

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Jonathan M. Meyer (University of California, San Diego) Stephen M. Stahl (University of California, San Diego)

The Clozapine Handbook

Stahl's Handbooks

Jonathan M. Meyer (University of California, San Diego), Stephen M. Stahl (University of California, San Diego)

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Cambridge University Press
16 May 2019

Psychopharmacology; Psychiatry

Series: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology Handbooks

Real-world and clinical trial data support that clozapine is the only effective antipsychotic for treatment resistant schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses. Clozapine also reduces rates of suicidality, psychiatric hospitalization and all-cause mortality. However, clozapine is underutilized for two reasons: misunderstandings of its efficacy benefits and misapprehension of, limited knowledge or misinformation about the management of treatment related risks and adverse effects. In response to worldwide efforts to promote clozapine use, this user-friendly Handbook provides clinicians with evidence-based approaches for patient management, as well as logical approaches to the management of clinical situations and adverse effects. It outlines clearly the rationale for specific management decisions and prioritises the options based on this logic. This Handbook is designed for use by clinicians worldwide and is essential reading for all mental health care professionals.

By: Jonathan M. Meyer (University of California San Diego), Stephen M. Stahl (University of California, San Diego)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 186mm, Width: 123mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781108447461
ISBN 10: 1108447465
Series: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology Handbooks
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 16 May 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface; 1. Initiating Clozapine; 2. Understanding hematologic monitoring and benign ethnic neutropenia; 3. Binding profile, metabolism, kinetics, drug interactions and use of plasma levels; 4. Managing constipation; 5. Managing sialorrhea; 6. Managing sedation, orthostasis and tachycardia; 7. Managing metabolic adverse effects; 8. Managing seizure risk and stuttering; 9. Fever, myocarditis, interstitial nephritis, DRESS, serositis and cardiomyopathy; 10. Eosinophilia, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, thrombocytosis, anemia, hepatic function abnormalities; 11. Managing enuresis and incontinence, priapism, venous thromboembolism, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, tardive dyskinesia and obsessive compulsive disorder; 12. The efficacy story: treatment resistant schizophrenia, psychogenic polydipsia, treatment intolerant schizophrenia, suicidality, violence, mania and Parkinson's disease psychosis; 13. Addressing clozapine positive symptom nonresponse in schizophrenia spectrum patients; 14. Discontinuing clozapine and management of cholinergic rebound; 15. Special topics: child and adolescent patients, elderly patients, patients with intellectual disability, pregnancy and risk for major congenital malformation, lactation, overdose, postmortem redistribution; Index.

Jonathan M. Meyer is currently a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and a Psychopharmacology Consultant to the California Department of State Hospitals. Dr Meyer is an internationally recognised speaker on psychopharmacology and the treatment of severe mental illness, and is Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Stephen M. Stahl is currently a Professor at the University of California, San Diego and serves as Honorary Fellow in the psychiatry department at the University of Cambridge. He is also the Chairman of the Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) and Arbor Scientia Group. Dr Stahl serves as the Director of Psychopharmacology Services at the California Department of State Hospitals as well as the Editor-in Chief of CNS Spectrums.