The Clozapine Handbook: Stahl's Handbooks (Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology Handbooks)

Description

Real-world and clinical trial data support that clozapine is the only effective antipsychotic for treatment resistant schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses. Clozapine also reduces rates of suicidality, psychiatric hospitalization and all-cause mortality. However, clozapine is underutilized for two reasons: misunderstandings of its efficacy benefits and misapprehension of, limited knowledge or misinformation about the management of treatment related risks and adverse effects. In response to worldwide efforts to promote clozapine use, this user-friendly Handbook provides clinicians with evidence-based approaches for patient management, as well as logical approaches to the management of clinical situations and adverse effects. It outlines clearly the rationale for specific management decisions and prioritises the options based on this logic. This Handbook is designed for use by clinicians worldwide and is essential reading for all mental health care professionals. Review: Very basic and costly for content - I purchased both kindle and hardcopy. In Kindle tables and text were split among different pages making it difficult to read making me to purchase hardcopy. Coming to hardcopy it was exactly the size of my palm. Coming to content very basic content the same we can get from standard textbooks and prescriber guidelines. Finally it is very costly for its content. Review: For anyone who wants to know anything about clozapine - I'm a pharmacist working in a psychiatric facility, so I see clozapine a lot. I'm always looking for new texts to enrich my office stash and have as good references. I have others of Stahl's texts and I thought this one would be a good addition. I will say, the material is not as detailed or in-depth as I would like it to be for use in a clinical setting; it really is just a handbook to help folk along with their understanding of clozapine, not really meant for deep diving. I liked it for its organized chapters, the relatively simple way the information is laid out and conveyed, and manages to break down one of the most complex antipsychotics on the market. It's a book that I now like to use as a quick reference or as something to remind me of a detail that's on the tip of my tongue. Some of the information is deeply technical, but even so, I think this handbook could even be useful to a layman if they or someone they know is starting clozapine and they're looking for more information.