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Monitoring cyclic antidepressants
1Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
|September 1, 1987
Abstract:
Therapeutic drug monitoring of antidepressants can ensure that a reasonable amount of drug reached the circulation, can aid in dosage adjustments for treating endogenous depression, can avoid toxicity, and aid in the diagnosis of drug-induced delirium. This article reviews the justification for antidepressant monitoring, discusses sample collection procedures, and presents guidelines for the interpretation of data.