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🟠 Hypertensive emergency (crisis) - Drugs, doses & management

…contraindications and risk of adverse effects should guide the choice of agent. Calcium channel blockers (CCB) Clevidipine Drug Clevidipine Brand names Cleviprex ® Indications Hypertension…

Hypertensive emergency (crisis)

…contraindications and risk of adverse effects should guide the choice of agent. Calcium channel blockers (CCB) Clevidipine Drug Clevidipine Brand names Cleviprex ® Indications Hypertension…

Ivabradine: Indications, Dosing and Heart-Rate Targets

…avoidance of cardiac stimulants. Beta blockers have been used for symptomatic patients, but effective doses may produce troublesome chronic fatigue. Non dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers…

Pharmacologic agents in myocardial perfusion imaging

…beta blockers, or calcium channel blockers Recent acute myocardial infarction (AMI) Pharmacologic agents in perfusion imaging Vasodilators (adenosine, dipyridamole, regadenoson) These agents exert vasodilatory effects…

Statin Intolerance and Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms

…erythromycin and clarithromycin, azole antifungals, selected antivirals including lopinavir, ritonavir and nirmatrelvir/ritonavir, some calcium channel blockers, colchicine, ciclosporin, warfarin and grapefruit juice. Gemfibrozil should…

🟠 Clevidipine

…Treatment of postoperative hypertension. Mechanism of action Ultra short acting calcium channel blocker (CCB). Half life: 5 minutes. Rapidly inactivated by esterases. Effects • Clevidipine is…

Levosimendan (Simdax, Simendan) in acute heart failure

…ATP channels. Levosimendan alleviates heart failure symptoms, increases cardiac output, and lowers pulmonary artery pressure without increasing myocardial oxygen consumption. The inotropic effect of levosimendan…

🟠 Nicardipine

…Prinzmetal's angina Mechanism of action Nicardipine is a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker (CCB). Nicardipine inhibits the influx of extracellular calcium in the myocardial and…

🟠 Nitroglycerin

…activates calcium sensitive potassium channels in the cell membrane. Nitroglycerin is similar in action and pharmacokinetics to nitroprusside, although the latter is more potent. Effects…

🟠 Nitroprusside

…then activates calcium sensitive potassium channels in the cell membrane. Time to onset of action : 1 minute. Duration of action : <10 minutes. Effects Potent blood…

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