Assignment – develop a short 15- 20-minute PowerPoint presentation on the following that will include a brief overview of the long-acting injectable (LAI), the doses and schedules and conversion from PO to the LAI used, monitoring parameters, etc. Also, include in your presentation 3 questions that are questions ONLY to dosing considerations (not questions like Do you use gluteal or deltoid muscle for injection as this should be covered in our PowerPoint or patient stopped LAI for 6 months what to do now? how to restart? etc.). Make sure questions are multiple choice only, and you provide a slide with your detailed explanation for each question asked, following that question. Thus, your 3 questions should be a case-specific scenario (e.g. patient has a dose of Zyprexa oral of 30 mg but the zyprexa relpreev is a conversion for a much lower mg/day dose, so how to you dose it? etc. This will require for all of you to look at doing that is OUTSIDE of the dose range that is included in the package insert, etc Be sure to also include how to decrease the oral dose when initiating the LAI (if applicable) and by what % is the decrease, etc.(this is especially true for some of these agents) Please Proof-read your slides for grammar and spell check and make sure all info is accurate and complete (use your knowledge of making slides eg. bullets and not complete sentences, unless warranted, etc) Also if there is common info for your medications then put that info together (ie. minimize the number of slides- e.g. the monitoring, ADRs, etc). ALSO include what to do if patient misses dose (when to restart fully vs. increase dose or other options)
drugs you are assigned: Abilify Maintena, Aristada, Aristat Initio, Abilify Asimtufii (include for Abilify Maintenna what drug interactions would cause 300 mg dose vs.400 mg dose, etc) Invega Sustenna,
Some of the questions are straightforward and some may require you to say, contact the drug company to get an answer (ie. or doses outside the range Please be mindful of including information that a pharmacist would need to know! (do not include the instructions for injection, other than gluteal vs. deltoid, etc
