Carbamazepine

Carbamazepine is used to manage and treat epilepsy, trigeminal neuralgia, and acute manic and mixed episodes in bipolar I disorder. Indications for epilepsy are specifically for partial seizures with complex symptomatology (psychomotor, temporal lobe), generalized tonic seizures (grand mal), and mixed seizure patterns. This activity will highlight off-label uses, mechanism of action, dosing, adverse effects, contraindications, and other key factors regarding carbamazepine.