drug class/dosing/monitoring parameters

fluoxetine
- SSRI
- 20-60
- avoid using in hepatic impairment
sertraline
- SSRI
- 50-200
paroxetine
- SSRI
- 20-60 (or 40)
Fluvoxamine
- SSRIs
- 50-300
Citalopram
- SSRIs
- 20-40
- ECK monitoring QTc prolongation
Escitalopram
- SSRIs
- 10-20
Duloxetine
- SNRIs
- 30-60
- avoid in hepatic impairment
- avoid chronic alcohol
- avoid in CrCl < 30ml/min
Venlafaxine
- SNRIs
- 37.5-75-300
- monitor blood pressure
- sustained release is a ghost tablet
desvenlafaxine
- SNRI
- 50-400
Buproprion
- SNRI
- 150-300
- contraindicated in seizure, and eating disorders
amitriptyline
- TCA
- 25-300
- may cause blue green urine
imipramine
- TCA
- 25-300
- TPC 20-350
Desipramine
- TCA
- 25-300
- may cause blue green urine
nortriptyline

25/50-200
Mertazepine
- novel agent
- 15-45
- may cause significan sedation
- increase TGs
- monitor weight, increase wt
nefazodone
- Novel agent
- 100-600
- monitor liver function, black box warning for hepatotoxicity
Trazodone
- novel agent
- causes sedation
- may cause priapism
vilazodone
- novel agent
- 20-40
- must take with food

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drug class/dosing/monitoring parameters

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PT1

Updated

2013-02-06T01:51:57Z

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