What are the safety and efficacy outcomes of antipsychotic medication use in pregnancy?
Antipsychotic use in pregnancy generally results in live, healthy babies, but requires monitoring for neonatal respiratory distress.
There is a great need for safety and efficacy information about the use of antipsychotic medications in pregnancy. Live, healthy babies are the most common outcome following the use of antipsychotic medication in pregnancy, but clinicians should be particularly mindful of neonatal problems such as respiratory distress.
Kulkarni et al. (2014) studied this question.
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