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How do you approach antipsychotic selection in a patient with a newly implanted pacemaker or ICD?

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Psychiatry · Stanford University School of Medicine
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For patients with cardiac conduction abnormalities ziprasidone/chlorpromazine/thioridazine have the highest risk for QTc prolongation. Antipsychotics such as olanzapine and quetiapine have moderate risk with aripiprazole being least likely to cause prolongation of QTc. Implanted pacemakers do not ne...

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