Asenapine Maleate and Desirudin Subcutaneous

• Generic Name: asenapine
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Saphris, Saphris Black Cherry

Acute and maintenance treatment of schizophrenia in adults.

American Psychiatric Association (APA) considers most atypical antipsychotic agents first-line drugs for management of the acute phase of schizophrenia (including first psychotic episodes).

Patients who do not respond to or tolerate one drug may be successfully treated with an agent from a different class or with a different adverse effect profile.

Acute treatment as monotherapy or adjunctive therapy with lithium or valproate of manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder (with or without psychotic features).

Maintenance treatment as monotherapy of bipolar I disorder.

• Generic Name: desirudin
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Iprivask

Desirudin is used to prevent deep venous thrombosis, a condition in which harmful blood clots form in the blood vessels of the legs. These blood clots can travel to the lungs and can become lodged in the blood vessels of the lungs, causing a condition called pulmonary embolism. Desirudin is used for several days after hip replacement surgery, while you are unable to walk. It is during this time that blood clots are most likely to form.

Desirudin is available only with your doctor's prescription.