Top 20 drug − drug interactions, polypharmacy and analysis of the nature of risk factors due to QT interval prolonging drug use in elderly psychiatry outpatients

Top 20 drug − drug interactions, polypharmacy and analysis of the nature of risk factors due to QT interval prolonging drug use in elderly psychiatry outpatients

Introduction and Objectives: Psychotropic medications extend the corrected QT (QTc) period in the ECG. Psychiatric patients exposed to ≥ 1 psychotropic medication (s) represent a group with a marked probability of drug-activated QTc-prolongation. Prolonged QTc interval in elderly patients (age >...

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Main Authors: Biswadeep Das, Saravana Kumar Ramasubbu, Barun Kumar, Vikram Singh Rawat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Subjects:
drug-induced qt prolongation
elderly patients
psychiatry opd
psychotropic drugs
torsade de pointes
Online Access:http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2020;volume=9;issue=12;spage=6023;epage=6040;aulast=Das

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