A bipolar disorder patient is kept on lithium therapy. As a doctor when are you going to ask the nurse to get serum lithium levels checked ?
Lithium has been found to decrease both suicide attempts and completed suicides in a patient with bipolar disorder. Extra edge : Only antipsychotic with antisuicide propey : Clozapine
Immediatly as soon as the last dose given
12 hours after the last dose
24 hours after the last dose
8 hrs after the last dose
Mood Disorders