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Activity Date: 04/24/2018

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Session Time and Location

The live session is complete.

Target Audience

This course is designed for pharmacists, nurse practitioners or other healthcare professionals involved in the comprehensive medication management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients.

Session Summary

1:30-1:32 PM: Session and Speaker Introduction
Austin Campbell, PharmD, BCPP

1:32-1:46 PM: Psychotropics and Priapism: A Painful, Personal Problem

Bradley Burk, PharmD

Priapism refers to an inadvertent, painful, and prolonged erection, and is considered to be a urologic emergency. Psychotropic medications have been implicated as being the most common causes of medication-induced priapism. This clinical pearl will describe a particular case with psychotropic-induced priapism from different psychotropic medications in a patient with treatment-resistant schizoaffective disorder. Case reports, and a published article from the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, testing the primary hypothesis of psychotropic-induced priapism, are presented. The clinician will be educated on the relative safety of antipsychotics with respect to priapism induction, in aims of preventing this clinical dilemma. Treatment modalities for priapism will also be covered.

1:46-2:00 PM: Antipsychotic Drug Selection with Cobicistat-Containing Antiretroviral Regimens

Farah Khorassani, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS

The prevalence of HIV in patients with serious mental illness (SMI) is greater than in patients who are not infected with HIV. Regimen selection is individualized based on factors including potential adverse effects, pill burden, resistance test results, and drug-drug interaction potential.  Elvitegravir/cobicistat/tenofovir/emtricitabine is one of the preferred regimens recommended as initial therapy for most patients with HIV per the 2017 Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. This is a commonly prescribed regimen in psychiatric population given the low pill burden and ease of administration. Cobicistat, a pharmacokinetic (PK) enhancer and component of this regimen, is a strong cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 inhibitor, and significantly increases the concentration of several CYP 3A4 metabolized antipsychotics. Through evaluation of a case, this clinical pearl will orient pharmacists to the potential drug-drug interactions between cobicistat and CYP 3A4 metabolized antipsychotics and provide guidance on proper agent selection and dosage adjustment.  

2:00-2:14 PM: Treatment of Catatonia in Adolescent Patients

Kristin Waters, PharmD, BCPS

Although catatonia has been described as early as the 1870s, most current evidence focuses on its treatment in adult patients. Catatonia, characterized by a distinct set of psychomotor disturbances, can have significant adverse outcomes including malnutrition, deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, pressure ulcers, and an increased risk of neuroleptic malignant syndrome. The treatment of children and adolescents presenting with catatonic symptoms is therefore imperative despite the paucity of evidence derived from clinical controlled trials. The goal of this presentation is to review five cases of catatonia in adolescent patients (ages 15 to 19 years) treated on an inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit within approximately one year. Treatment strategies, including electroconvulsive therapy and benzodiazepines, will be discussed along with clinical outcomes.

2:14-2:28 PM: Catatonia Following Organ Transplant: Beyond Benzodiazepines or ECT

Suzanne Harris, PharmD, BCPP

2:28-2:30 PM: Session Conclusion
Austin Campbell, PharmD, BCPP
 

Course Requirements

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This course will be provided at the CPNP 2018 Annual Meeting, April 22-25, 2018. Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported immediately to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online at https://aapp.org/mycpnp/transcript/acpe.

Faculty Information and Disclosures

Bradley Burk, PharmD
Suzanne Harris, PharmD, BCPP
Farah E. Khorassani, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP
Kristin Waters, PharmD, BCPS

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Learning Objectives

Psychotropics and Priapism: A Painful, Personal Problem

  1. Conceptualize the hypothesized mechanism behind psychotropic-induced priapism.
  2. For a particular case, determine which medications were most likely to have caused priapism.
  3. Recognize treatment options for psychotropic-induced priapism.

Antipsychotic Drug Selection with Cobicistat-Containing Antiretroviral Regimens

  1. Recognize antipsychotics that interact with cobicistat-containing antiretroviral regimens.
  2. Design an antipsychotic regimen for a patient with HIV on a cobicistat-containing antiretroviral regimen.

Treatment of Catatonia in Adolescent Patients

  1. Describe the clinical presentation of catatonia.
  2. Review current options for the treatment of catatonia.
  3. Assess treatment and outcomes of five cases of adolescent catatonia treated at an inpatient psychiatric facility.

Catatonia Following Organ Transplant: Beyond Benzodiazepines or ECT

  1. Identify patients that may be candidates for alternative agents for post-transplant catatonia based on available literature.
  2. Apply findings reported in the literature for developing a tailored treatment strategy when managing catatonia in these patients.

Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures

Activity Date: 04/24/2018
ACPE Contact Hours: 1
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-18-037-L01-P (Knowledge)
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for certification renewal.

ACPEThe College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides 1.0 contact hour of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming.

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