The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470979488 ISBN 13: 9780470979488

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Synopsis

The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book is the essential guide for anyone responsible for prescribing, dispensing or
administering drugs for patients with mental health disorders. All the evidence has been
reviewed and summarised succinctly by an expert team of psychiatrists and pharmacists.

The evidence base for drug treatments in psychiatry ranges from meta-analyses and
randomised controlled clinical trials to single case reports, from NICE guidelines to
individual SPCs. Where to look for information when transferring a patient from one
drug to another or when dealing with a complex patient (for example, with co-morbid
epilepsy or liver disease or HIV infection)? The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines are
established as the leading clinical relevant reference for handling complex prescribing
problems and for formulating prescribing policy.

This new edition makes greater use of tables and boxes to facilitate quick reference and
includes new sections on cytochrome-mediated interactions, psychiatric side effects of
non-psychotropic drugs and on GBL and GHB dependence.

Chapters cover plasma monitoring, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and
anxiety, children and adolescents, substance misuse and special patient groups. Each
section has a full reference list. The book covers prescribing drugs outside their licensed
indications and their interaction with substances such as alcohol, nicotine and caffeine.

Trainees will gain important information regarding the rational, safe and effective use
of medications for patients with mental illness. Experienced clinicians will find excellent
guidance regarding more complex issues that they may not encounter regularly.

Praise for previous editions:
“I would regard this book as mandatory for any pharmacist directly involved in the
care of patients with a psychiatric diagnosis, be they primary or secondary care-based.”
The Pharmaceutical Journal

“An excellent book and a ‘must’ for practising psychiatrists... not only will the rational
prescribing of psychotropic drugs drastically improve but, more importantly, the
patient will certainly benefit.”
Human Psychopharmacology

About the Author:

David Taylor is Director of Pharmacy and Pathology at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and Professor of Psychopharmacology at King’s College London.  The lead author of all editions of the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, Professor Taylor is the author of several other texts and editor of Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology.

Carol Paton is Chief Pharmacist at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London: she is also joint Head of the Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health and an Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London. 

Shitij Kapur is Professor of Schizophrenia, Imaging and Therapeutics and the Dean and Head of School at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470979488
• ISBN 13: 9780470979488
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 680
• Editor: Taylor David, Paton Carol, Kapur Shitij