Prior to treating patients with Ritalin, assess: • for the presence of cardiac disease (i.e., perform a careful history, family history of sudden death or ventricular arrhythmia, and physical exam). • the family history and clinically evaluate patients for motor or verbal tics or Tourette’s syndrome before initiating Ritalin. More @Wikipedia
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