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Psychopharmacologic Agents and Psychiatric Drug Considerations

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The clinical anesthesiologist should appreciate that mental illnesses, cognitive disorders, and mental health problems affect all walks of life. It is a fact that few families in America are untouched by mental illness. An estimated 26.2 % of Americans aged 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. Mental disease interferes with life activity and ability to function and constitutes a pervasive and prevalent health problem among varied American population subsets, including the young and the elderly. The presence of mental disorders, associated symptoms, possible concomitant pathology, and prescribed medications is of significance to all health-care providers and not simply those in the field of mental health.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Science Center Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Charles Fox MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Alan David Kaye MD, PhD & Henry Liu MD

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Alan David Kaye MD, PhD

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  1. Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Department of Pharmacy Practice, Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Stockton, California, USA

    Adam M. Kaye

  3. Center for Perioperative Management and Medical Informatics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Fox, C., Kaye, A.D., Liu, H. (2015). Psychopharmacologic Agents and Psychiatric Drug Considerations. In: Kaye, A., Kaye, A., Urman, R. (eds) Essentials of Pharmacology for Anesthesia, Pain Medicine, and Critical Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8948-1_36

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