title: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Pharmacology and clinical implications in anaesthesia and critical care medicine.
abstract: The newer, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are increasingly used in psychiatry in both children and adults. Although they have fewer side-effects, they can cause significant physiological changes and drug interactions which have implications for the anaesthetist and the critical care physician, especially the potential to induce the serotonin syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Kam
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000758:Anesthesia; D002648:Child; D003422:Critical Care; D003863:Depression / Q000188:drug therapy; D004347:Drug Interactions; D006801:Humans; D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors