| AD: | Antidepressant |
| AA: | Anti-Anxiety |
| ST: | Stimulant |
| AP: | Antipsychotic |
| MS: | Mood Stabilizer |
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This app is provided for mnemonic purposes only.
A correct response removes an item from the question bank; an incorrect response moves the item to the end of the bank for re-testing. Every response is counted and the final score is the percent correct of the total responses.
This app is primarily intended to help the emergency healthcare provider increase scene safety by recognizing a potential psychiatric situation through the presence of on-scene, psychiatric medication. To a lesser extent, this app might help with patient assessment, and, if one discovers an aptitude for memorizing names, lead to a more advanced medical position.
The data in this app are from The United States National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 2020. Medicines are listed by their generic names (hence the lowercase, initial letter). This name should appear on a medicine's pharmaceutical label along with its trade name. Generic names are more common than trade names, so memorizing generic names might be easier than vice versa.
There are multiple ways to classify medications, and some medications might occasionally fall under more than one class. The following list adheres to the NIMH's therapeutic classification, which might be different from other respectable sources. I have arranged the order to group common endings together to promote memorization and to help identify related and derived medicines:
Notice the difference between the endings "pram" and "pam" and between the endings "apine" and "epine."
The drug called "lisdexamfetamine dimesylate" by the NIMH is called simply "lisdexamfetamine" on other respected sites, including MedlinePlus.
According to the NIMH, valproic acid is the same medication as divalproex sodium.
Some medicines on the list might also be used to treat non-psychiatric conditions.
Reading these medications aloud multiple times might help with memorization.
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