The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry (Paperback, 14 ed)

Preliminaries 

Preface? 

Acknowledgements? 

Notes on Using the Prescribing Guidelines? 

List of Abbreviations 

Part One: Drug Treatment of Major Psychiatric Conditions 

Chapter 1 Schizophrenia and related psychoses 

Antipsychotic Drugs 

General Introduction? 

General Principles for Prescribing? 

Minimum Effective Doses? 

Licensed Maximum Doses? 

Equivalent Doses 

High-Dose Antipsychotics: Prescribing and Monitoring? 

Combined Antipsychotics 

Antipsychotic prophylaxis? 

Negative Symptoms? 

Monitoring? 

Relative Adverse Effects- a rough guide? 

Treatment Algorithms for Schizophrenia? 

First Generation Antipsychotics- a place in therapy? 

NICE Guidelines for the Treatment of Schizophrenia 

Antipsychotic Response 

Acutely Disturbed or Violent Behavior? 

Antipsychotic depots/Long Acting Injections 

Depot/LAI Antipsychotics? 

Management of Patients on Long-Term Depots? 

Aripiprazole LAI? 

Olanzapine LAI? 

Paliperidone Palmitate LAI? 

Risperidone LAI? 

Risperidone Subcutaneous LAI? 

Newer Long-Acting Depots? 

Penfluridol Weekly? 

Omega-3 Fatty Acid? 

Stopping Antipsychotics 

Antipsychotic Side Effects 

Extrapyramidal Side Effects? 

Akathisia 

Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) 

Antipsychotic-induced Weight Gain? 

Treatment of Antipsychotic Induced Weight Gain? 

Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome 

Catatonia? 

ECG Changes- QT Prolongation? 

Effect of Antipsychotic Medications on Plasma Lipids? 

Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance? 

Blood Pressure Changes? 

Hyponatremia? 

Hyperprolactinemia? 

Sexual Dysfunction 

Pneumonia? 

Switching Antipsychotics? 

Venous Thromboembolism 

Refractory Schizophrenia and Clozapine 

Clozapine Initiation Schedule? 

IM Clozapine? 

Optimizing Clozapine Treatment? 

Alternatives to Clozapine? 

Re-Starting Clozapine after a Break in Treatment 

Initiation of Clozapine for Community-Based Patients 

Clozapine- Adverse Effects? 

Clozapine- common adverse effects? 

Clozapine- uncommon or unusual adverse effects 

Clozapine- serious hematological and cardiovascular effects 

Clozapine- induced hypersalivation? 

Clozapine- induced gastrointestinal hypomotility 

Clozapine, neutropenia, and lithium? 

Clozapine and chemotherapy? 

Clozapine Genetic Testing for Treatment 

Chapter 2 Bipolar Disorder? 

Lithium? 

Valproate? 

Carbamazepine? 

Antipsychotic Drugs in Bipolar Disorder 

Antipsychotic Long Acting Injections in Bipolar Disorder 

Physical Monitoring for People with Bipolar Disorder 

Treatment of Acute Mania or Hypomania? 

Rapid-Cycling bipolar Affective Disorder 

Bipolar Depression 

Prophylaxis in Bipolar Disorder? 

Stopping Lithium and Mood Stabilizers? 

Chapter 3 Depression and Anxiety Disorders? 

Introduction to Depression 

Antidepressants: General Overview? 

Recognized Minimum Effective Doses? 

Drug Treatment of Depression 

Management of Treatment-Resistant Depression- First Choice? 

Management of Treatment-Resistant Depression- Second Choice 

Treatment-Resistant Depression- Other Reported Treatments? 

Ketamine? 

Psychotic Depression 

Switching Antidepressants? 

Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms? 

Stopping Antidepressants 

Electroconvulsive Therapy and psychotropic drugs? 

Psychostimulants in depression? 

Post-Stroke Depression 

Antidepressants: Alternative routes of administration? 

Antidepressant Prophylaxis? 

Drug interactions with antidepressants? 

Cardiac Effects of Antidepressants? 

Antidepressant-induced Arrhythmia? 

Antidepressant-induced hyponatremia? 

Antidepressants and hyperprolactinemia? 

Antidepressants and diabetes mellitus 

Antidepressants and sexual disfunction? 

SSRIs and Bleeding? 

St John's Wort? 

Relative Adverse Effects- a Rough Guide? 

Anxiety Spectrum Disorders 

Benzodiazepines in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders? 

Benzodiazepines, z drugs and gabapentin? 

Benzodiazepines and disinhibition? 

Chapter 4 Addictions and Substance Misuse 

Introduction? 

Alcohol Dependence? 

Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium- Delirium Tremens? 

Opioid Dependence? 

Nicotine and Smoking Cessation? 

Pharmacological Treatment of Dependence on Stimulants? 

GBL and GHB Dependence? 

Benzodiazepine misuse? 

Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonist (SCRAs)? 

Acute Behavioral Disturbance (ABD) in acute admission? 

Interactions between 'street drugs' and prescribed psychotropic drugs 

Drugs of Misuse: A summary? 

Substance Misuse in Pregnancy 

Part Two: Drug Treatment of Special Patient Groups 

Chapter 5 Children and Adolescents 

Principles of prescribing practice in childhood and adolescence? 

Depression in Children and Adolescents? 

Bipolar Illness in Children and Adolescents? 

Psychosis in Children and Adolescents? 

Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents? 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Children? 

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents? 

Attention Deficit hyperactivity disorder 

Autism Spectrum Disorder? 

Tics and Tourette's Syndrome? 

Melatonin in the treatment of insomnia in children? 

Rapid Tranquilization? 

Doses of commonly used psychotropic drugs? 

Chapter 6 Prescribing in Older Adults? 

General principles? 

Dementia? 

Safer prescribing for physical health conditions in dementia? 

Management of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Dementia? 

A guide to Medication doses of commonly used psychotropics in older adults 

Covert Administration of medicines within food and drink? 

Treatment of Depression in Older Adults? 

Chapter 7 Pregnancy and Breast Feeding? 

Drug Choice in Breastfeeding? 

Breastfeeding? 

Chapter 8 Hepatic and Renal Impairment? 

Hepatic Impairment? 

Renal Impairment? 

Part Three: Prescribing in Specialist Conditions? 

Chapter 9 Drug Treatment of other Psychiatric Conditions? 

Borderline Personality Disorder? 

Eating Disorders 

Delirium? 

Chapter 10 Drug Treatment of Psychiatric Symptoms Occurring in the Context of other Disorders 

General Principles of Prescribing in Human Immunodeficiency Virus? 

Epilepsy? 

22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome 

Learning Disabilities? 

Huntington's Disease? 

Multiple Sclerosis? 

Parkinson's Disease? 

Atrial Fibrillation? 

Bariatric Surgery? 

Psychiatric Medication for people approaching end of life 

Part Four: Other Aspects of Psychotropic Drug Use 

Chapter 11 Pharmacokinetics? 

Plasma level monitoring of psychotropic drugs 

Interpreting postmortem plasma concentration results? 

Acting on Clozapine plasma concentration results? 

Psychotropic drugs and cytochrome function? 

Smoking and psychotropic drugs? 

Drug interactions with alcohol? 

Chapter 12 Other Substances? 

Caffeine? 

Nicotine? 

Chapter 13 Psychotropics in Special Conditions? 

Psychotropic Drugs in Overdose? 

Driving and Psychotropic Drugs? 

Psychotropic drugs and surgery? 

Chapter 14 Miscellany? 

Enhancing Medication adherence? 

Re-Starting psychotropic medications after a period of non-compliance.? 

Biochemical and hematological effects of psychotropics? 

Summary of psychiatric adverse effects of no psychotropic medications? 

Prescribing Drugs outside their licensed indication? 

Mental health Act in England and Wales? 

Site of Administration of Intramuscular Injection? 

Intravenous formulations in Psychiatry