| Category of Drug | Fluphenazine is Antipsychotics drug |
| Mechanism of Action | |
| Indications | Fluphenazine is used for 1. Maintenance treatment of schizophrenia and other psychoses 2. Mania 3. Postoperative nausea |
| Well Known Pharmaceutical Brands | |
| Available dosage forms | 1. TABLET 2. INJECTION |
| Dose | |
| Contraindications | 1. Children 2. Confusional states 3. Impaired consciousness due to CNS depression 4. Parkinsonism 5. Intolerance to antipsychotics 6. Depression 7. Bone-marrow depression 8. Pheochromocytoma 9. Blood dyscrasias 10. Coma 11. Brain damage |
| Precautions | 1. Treatment requires careful monitoring for optimum effect 2. Initial small test dose as adverse effects are prolonged 3. Extrapyramidal symptoms occur frequently 4. When transferring from oral to depot therapy 5. Dosage by mouth should be reduced gradually 6. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disorders 7. Respiratory disease 8. Epilepsy 9. Acute infections 9. Pregnancy |
| Adverse Effects | 1. Sedantig and fewer hypotensive and anticholinergic symptoms 2. Higher incidence of extrapyramidal symptoms 3. Systemic lupus erythematosus 4. Pain at the injection site 5. Neurological disturbances |
| Pregnancy Category | C |
