https://www.socictopen.socict.org/files/original/38cf0deef7ecaea24dfe9ce600c03e44.pdf 9bb3cbd4efa83e585a6dc618bfb5cc82 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Recommendations about the Use of Psychotropic Medications during the COVID-19 Pandemic Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriela Andrade, Frederico Simões do Couto, Luis Câmara-Pestana Description An account of the resource Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is a particularly relevant threat to mentally ill patients, and it constitutes a new challenge for health care providers. To the best of our knowledge, there is not any embracing published review about the use of psychotropic drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and Methods: Non-systematic literature review. A search in the PubMed database was performed, with the terms ‘psychotropic drugs’, ‘COVID-19’, ‘psychiatry’ and ‘pandemic’. Consensus and clinical guidelines about psychotropic drugs and COVID-19 approach, published by scientific societies, governmental entities and drug regulatory agencies were included. Results and Discussion: We present the recommendations about the use of psychotropic drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the outpatient and inpatient settings. The treatment of affective bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have now added increased difficulties. Some psychotropic drugs interfere with the pathophysiology of the novel coronavirus infection and they could interact with the drugs used in the treatment of COVID-19. Some patients will need pharmacological interventions due to the presence of delirium. Smoking cessation changes the serum levels of some psychotropic drugs and may influence their use. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges in clinical practice. Psychiatric patients are a vulnerable population and often a careful clinical, laboratorial and electrocardiographic evaluation may be needed, particularly in those diagnosed with COVID-19. The regular treatment of mentally ill patients with COVID-19 presents increased complexity. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource covid-19, pandemia, psiquiatría, Fármacos psicotrópicos Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 10.20344/amp.13976 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Acta Médica Portuguesa Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ordem dos Médicos Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Medicine, Medicine (General)