Sodium Valproate and Pregnancy — CASC Station 2.5 (Psychopharmacology)

MRCPsych CASC Psychopharmacology station: Sodium Valproate and Pregnancy. You are a core psychiatry trainee in a perinatal mental health clinic. You are…

Category: Psychopharmacology · Chapter 2: Advanced Clinical Stations

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You are a core psychiatry trainee in a perinatal mental health clinic. You are about to see Miss Anne Smith, a 35-year-old woman with a history of Bipolar…

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More Psychopharmacology stations

• 1.4 Treatment Discussion for Recurrent Depressive Disorder
• 2.4 Schizophrenia + Quetiapine + Bradycardia & QTc Prolongation
• 3.2 Antenatal Mental Health Review — Quetiapine and Gestational Diabetes
• 3.3 Clozapine Discussion in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia
• 3.10 Hyperprolactinaemia on Olanzapine — Focused History, Explaining Results, and Holistic Management
• 3.60 Lithium Augmentation — Explanation and Discussion
• 3.61 Electroconvulsive Therapy — Explanation and Discussion
• 3.66 Clozapine-Induced Metabolic Syndrome — Explaining Results and Management Plan

Other stations in Chapter 2

• 2.1 Learning Disability and Human Rights – Sterilisation Ethics
• 2.2 Suicide Safety Risk Planning
• 2.3 Management of Relapse of Schizophrenia in Community
• 2.6 Systematic Desensitisation for Agoraphobia
• 2.7 Perimenopausal Symptoms in Bipolar Disorder
• 2.8 Physical Examination of EPSE
• 2.9 Forensic Risk Assessment – Fire-Setting and EUPD Traits in a Young Adult
• 2.10 MSE – Acute Psychosis/Mania (Drug-Induced)
• 2.11 Drug-Induced Hypomania in Parkinson's Disease
• 2.12 Autism Spectrum Disorder – Developmental History
• 2.13 Alcohol Dependence, Anxiety, Elevated LFTs, Still Driving
• 2.14 Financial Capacity Assessment
• 2.15 MSE for OCD
• 2.16 CMHT Outpatient MSE – Schizophrenia Follow-up
• 2.17 Capacity to Refuse Social Care — Elderly Patient with Dementia
• 2.18 Capacity to Refuse Medical Procedure (OGD) — Patient with Psychosis
• 2.19 Financial Capacity Assessment — Grandiose Delusions in an Elderly Patient
• 2.20 Capacity to Refuse Surgical Wound Closure — Prisoner with EUPD

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