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Epilepsy • General Internal Medicine • Neurology • Psychiatry • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
How do you approach using antipsychotic medication in patients with epilepsy?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Carefully, to say the least.
A number of meds lower the seizure threshold.
It is important to ensure that anti-epileptics are at a therapeutic level.
Also have an EKG to see the rhythm, QTC, and conduction defects.
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