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Bipolar disorder - Management
How should I mange a woman with an unplanned pregnancy?
- For all women taking medication, immediately contact a psychiatrist to establish if drug treatment should be stopped.
- Refer urgently to a psychiatrist and specialist fetomaternal medicine service, for a risk assessment and further management, those women who are taking medication with a known teratogenic risk at the time of conception or in the first trimester (i.e. lithium, valproate, carbamazepine, lamotrigine, or paroxetine).
- Refer all other women to a psychiatrist for an assessment and a discussion of drug treatment.
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