…CoA reductase inhibitor High-intensity statin with a long half-life, allowing it to be taken at any time of day unlike simvastatin. Muscle complaints…

Crestor Rosuvastatin Krka Rosuvastatin Sandoz HMG-CoA-reduktashämmare Den mest potenta statinen per milligram: 10 mg sänker LDL ungefär lika mycket som atorvastatin 20 mg…

Zocord Simvastatin Krka HMG-CoA-reduktashämmare Den statin som byggde evidensen för sekundärprevention, men som i dag oftast får stå tillbaka för atorvastatin och rosuvastatin…

Symbicort Turbuhaler Bufomix Easyhaler DuoResp Spiromax Inhaled corticosteroid in fixed combination with long-acting β₂-agonist Formoterol is the only long-acting β₂-agonist with…

Adrenalin Stragen EpiPen Jext α- and β-agonist The only drug that reverses all components of anaphylaxis, and the cornerstone of cardiac arrest treatment. The…

Bensylpenicillin Viatris Benzylpenicillin Panpharma Natural penicillin for parenteral use First-line treatment for community-acquired pneumonia and erysipelas, and the foundation of the narrow-spectrum…

…Adenocor Endogenous purine nucleoside, AV-nodal blocking agent First-line treatment for regular narrow-complex tachycardia when vagal manoeuvres have failed. Acts by blocking the…

Salures Bendroflumetiazid Evolan Thiazide diuretic Inhibits the Na⁺/Cl⁻ cotransporter in the distal tubule and is the most commonly used thiazide diuretic for hypertension. The…

…Tikacillin Fenoximetylpenicillin EQL Pharma Narrow-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic The first-choice oral penicillin for the most common respiratory and skin infections in outpatient care…

…months require flare prophylaxis because falling urate levels themselves trigger attacks. Two features make this drug dangerous: the hypersensitivity syndrome and the combination with azathioprine.

…is weight-based, pulmonary embolism and myocardial infarction use a fixed 100 mg — and confusing them is the most common serious error. The short half…

…and most Enterobacterales, with good CNS penetration — making this the standard choice for community-acquired bacterial meningitis and severe sepsis of unknown origin. The price…

…thrombin and the only one with a specific, rapidly acting antidote — idarucizumab achieves complete reversal within minutes, which weighs heavily in patients who may need…

…difference between the prophylactic dose and the therapeutic dose is fourfold and is expressed in IU — confusing the two is the most common dosing error…

…As standing treatment it is something entirely different: the parent compound has a half-life of one to two days and the active metabolite desmethyldiazepam…

…and Borrelia. Near-complete oral absorption and a long half-life make once-daily dosing possible. It is the standard choice in pneumonia in penicillin…

…making it combinable with beta-blockers. The price of pure vasodilatation is dependent oedema, which is dose-related and the most common reason for discontinuation…

…can be measured in real time with APTT, and it can be neutralised completely with protamine within minutes. This is why unfractionated heparin is the…

…unsuitable as first-line treatment in hypertensive crisis — but useful in pre-eclampsia and as afterload relief in combination with a nitrate and beta-blocker.

…never lets go. The effect is immediate and complete: unbound dabigatran in plasma falls by over 99 per cent directly after the infusion. The specificity…

…β₁-stimulation produces marked chronotropy and inotropy, while equally potent β₂-stimulation dilates the vessels — completely without alpha effect. The result is that heart rate…

…hour. A niche drug: catecholamine-induced hypertensive crisis — phaeochromocytoma, cocaine and amphetamine intoxication, MAO inhibitor crisis — and local treatment of skin necrosis after noradrenaline extravasation.

…drug is ineffective in infranodal block. The effect comes within one minute and fades over an hour or so, making it a bridge to pacing…

…approximately one third as much elemental calcium per ml as calcium chloride, and that confusion is the most common dosing error in acute calcium treatment.