new guidelines for monitoring patients on atypical antipsychotics
March 2004
Finally, there are new guidelines for monitoring patients on atypical antipsychotics...Risperdal, Zyprexa, Seroquel, etc.
These newer antipsychotics are sometimes more effective...and cause fewer movement disorders than the older antipsychotics.
But the atypicals have their own set of potentially serious adverse effects...obesity, diabetes, and dyslipidemia.
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