Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Starting Dose (FDA Labels)
The starting dose of a long-acting injectable antipsychotic, by its label.
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Example
- Product and start
- Invega Sustenna, from oral paliperidone ER
- Current dose
- 9 mg
Result: oral paliperidone ER 9 mg once daily corresponds to a maintenance dose of 156 mg once every 4 weeks.
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What you enter
- Product and start
- Current dose: oral mg a day (Sustenna, Aristada) or the last Sustenna dose in mg (Trinza)
- Date of the first injection, or for Trinza the date the next monthly dose is due (YYYY-MM-DD, optional)
How this is calculated
Citation
FDA labels on DailyMed, Dosage and Administration: Invega Sustenna (initiation; Table 4), Invega Trinza (Table 1), Aristada (Table 2; initiation options) and Abilify Maintena (2.2, 1-day and 14-day initiation). Read the sources: Invega Sustenna label ↗, Invega Trinza label ↗, Invega Sustenna label ↗, Invega Trinza label ↗, Invega Hafyera label ↗, Aristada label ↗, Abilify Maintena label ↗
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