Asenapine Maleate and Isopto Carbachol

• 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: carbachol ophthalmic
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Isopto Carbachol, Miostat, Carboptic, Carbastat

Carbachol lowers pressure in the eye by increasing the amount of fluid that drains from the eye.

Isopto Carbachol (for the eye) is used to reduce pressure inside the eye after cataract surgery.

Isopto Carbachol may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.