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A.M.B.E.R. clinic Albuquerque Multidisciplinary Behavioral Evaluation for Recovery and Resiliency

A.M.B.E.R. clinic Albuquerque Multidisciplinary Behavioral Evaluation for Recovery and Resiliency. Alya Reeve, MD, MPH University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology & Pediatrics PI, Continuum of Care. Date: 9-11-2012. “ Psychopharmacology:

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A.M.B.E.R. clinic Albuquerque Multidisciplinary Behavioral Evaluation for Recovery and Resiliency

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  1. A.M.B.E.R. clinicAlbuquerque Multidisciplinary Behavioral Evaluation for Recovery and Resiliency Alya Reeve, MD, MPH University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology & Pediatrics PI, Continuum of Care

  2. Date: 9-11-2012 “Psychopharmacology: Strategies & Adaptations for individuals with TBI or I/DD”

  3. Strategy • Look for patterns that underlie the overt presenting complaint. • Get independent sources of information. • Listen to ALL the information. • spoken, unspoken • changes over time

  4. Strategy • Develop an historical timeline • Assure that it is accurate • Request information for gaps • Involve patient in discussion & history-taking process • Make sure no one is rendering patient invisible • Do not accept labels of symptoms; get & record symptoms and signs.

  5. Strategy • Prioritize any urgency. • Develop desensitization plans for procedural anxieties. • Record signs and symptoms without diagnostic categorization. • Develop a hypothesis; • At subsequent visits, re-examine appropriateness of your hypothesis…

  6. Adaptations • What is the identified purpose of this visit for • The patient • The second reporter • The system of care • Is this the same as the referral request? You are establishing context within which to use medications

  7. Adaptations • Identify symptoms of primary priority • Consider a class of medications • What are the side-effect profiles • Imagine worst-case scenario, plan for dealing with it.

  8. Procedure • Getting consent • Patient has to assent • Guardian/patient provides informed consent • Clarifying goals of treatment • duration of trial • rates of increase • symptom changes • unwanted symptoms

  9. So you made the decision • Start low • good to have little-to-no effect • practice building trust • Go SLOW • increments of smallest dose; or even ½-dose; longer duration before next increase (slow changes ~ less brain irritability) • Sometimes, break the rules….

  10. Bridget Islington • 52 AA female 6ft 1in 220 lbs. • Presenting Sx: seeing people; responding to voices; unable to do ADLs; can’t wash dishes/follow verbal directions; irritable, yelling. X 8-14 months • History: MVA  TBI age 7, passenger; father killed; since mother’s death living with aunt. • Risperidone: • 1 mg: EPS +++ • 0.5 mg: EPS ++ • 0.25 mg 3x/wk

  11. Putting it together • Goal is to increase function!!! • Address time that medications are taken/administered • Listen to reason patient doesn’t like the medicine (story of the red pills) • Is there support for taking medicine properly; are patient’s being sheltered, sequestered, hidden, or ignored? • Do you need to provide safety for staff, family, or patient???

  12. Communication • Information has to go to the team providing supports. • Oral review with persons in attendance • Written report – EMR; referral letter. • Notes or summary instructions to nursing staff, family member, or patient.

  13. Communication • Changes and strategies need to be clearly understood by those present, and by those reading your notes. • Do you know who will be providing you with the follow-up information? • Has a method been prepared to collect necessary data?

  14. Next presentation: 9-17-2012 “DD Systems – unraveling the mystery” resources and back issues can be found at Continuum of Care website: http://som.unm.edu/coc/Training/powerpointnew.html

  15. CME/CEU • x

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