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Q: guidelines for monitoring cardiac side effects of psychotropic drugs ( No Answer,   1 Comment )
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Subject: guidelines for monitoring cardiac side effects of psychotropic drugs
Category: Health > Medicine
Asked by: lullu-ga
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Posted: 16 Feb 2004 08:27 PST
Expires: 20 Feb 2004 09:27 PST
Question ID: 307308
Drugs used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders
neuroleptics,antidepressants etc are known to cause ECG(EKG) changes
including prolonged QT interval and torsades de pointes. Are there any
guidelines available for clinicans with recommendations on baseline
and ongoing monitoring of patients on these drugs
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Subject: Re: guidelines for monitoring cardiac side effects of psychotropic drugs
From: njbagel-ga on 18 Feb 2004 15:53 PST
 
The American Heart Association offers guidelines for children and
adolescnets. Here's the link:

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1702#t1 

The full text article can be found here:

http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/99/7/979#T1

Hope that helps.

-d

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