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Route- Sublingual
Not to eat or drink for 10 minutes after medication
administration
Not to swallow or chew the capsule.
Asenapine is an atypical antipsychotic (serotonin-
dopamine antagonist, as a mood stabilizer).
Asenapine is not absorbed after swallowing (less
than 2% bioavailable orally) and thus must be
administered sublingually (35% bioavailable), as
swallowing would render asenapine inactive.
Know the route of
Patients should be instructed to place the tablet
administration for newer
under the tongue and allow it to dissolve
agent asenapine
completely, which will occur in seconds; tablet
(Saphris) and what
should not be divided, crushed, chewed, or
instructions should be
swallowed.
given to the patient
Patients may not eat or drink for 10 minutes
regarding administration.
following sublingual administration so that the drug
in the oral cavity can be absorbed locally and not
washed into the stomach (where it would not be
absorbed).
Due to rapid onset of action, can be used as a rapid
acting "prn" or "as needed" dose for agitation or
transient worsening of psychosis or mania instead of
an injection.
Treatment should be suspended if absolute
neutrophil count falls below 1,000/mm3.
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Route- Sublingual
Not to eat or drink for 10 minutes after medication
administration
Not to swallow or chew the capsule.
Asenapine is an atypical antipsychotic (serotonin-
dopamine antagonist, as a mood stabilizer).
Asenapine is not absorbed after swallowing (less
than 2% bioavailable orally) and thus must be
administered sublingually (35% bioavailable), as
swallowing would render asenapine inactive.
Know the route of
Patients should be instructed to place the tablet
administration for newer
under the tongue and allow it to dissolve
agent asenapine
completely, which will occur in seconds; tablet
(Saphris) and what
should not be divided, crushed, chewed, or
instructions should be
swallowed.
given to the patient
Patients may not eat or drink for 10 minutes
regarding administration.
following sublingual administration so that the drug
in the oral cavity can be absorbed locally and not
washed into the stomach (where it would not be
absorbed).
Due to rapid onset of action, can be used as a rapid
acting "prn" or "as needed" dose for agitation or
transient worsening of psychosis or mania instead of
an injection.
Treatment should be suspended if absolute
neutrophil count falls below 1,000/mm3.
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