…Efficacy for vertebral and hip fractures is well established, but depends on the patient's ability to follow the administration instructions and on adequate calcium…

…eliminated renally, so renal function governs treatment entirely. Dyspepsia affects one in ten patients and is the most common reason for discontinuation in clinical practice.

…make once-daily dosing possible. It is the standard choice in pneumonia in penicillin-allergic patients and in atypical pneumonia, but the age limit of…

…was identified, and the maximum dose has since been capped at 20 mg for adults and 10 mg for patients over 65 years. In the…

…With a half-life of 9 minutes and the effect gone 20–30 minutes after the infusion ends, it is useful in patients where beta…

…psychotic agitation in younger patients, and tenths of a milligram in delirium in the elderly, where the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time…

…entirely free of sedation: a distinct minority of patients become drowsy, and this should be asked about in professional drivers. Renal function governs the dose.

…High-potency glucocorticoid with long duration Betapred is a distinctive formulation: the soluble tablet allows a child with croup or a patient with an allergic…

…Viaflo Glukos APL Concentrated carbohydrate solution for acute hypoglycaemia The first-line treatment for severe hypoglycaemia in a patient who cannot swallow and in whom…

…AV-node slowing. Rate control fails under adrenergic stress — making it a poor choice for the active patient and a reasonable one for the bedridden.

…att patienten tar tabletten rätt. Ung och hjärtfrisk patient kan starta på full substitutionsdos omkring 1,6 μg/kg, medan äldre och patienter med…

…and intravenous diltiazem require a named-patient licence. Verapamil or a beta-blocker is therefore the practical first choice for rate control in this setting…

…effect with marked β₂ effect means that stroke volume increases while systemic vascular resistance falls at low doses — good in the cold, hypoperfused patient with…

…mg intramuscularly is the treatment that a family member can give when the patient cannot swallow and intravenous access is unavailable — the effect arrives within…

…sedates and stabilises the circulation — the indirect sympathetic stimulation makes ketamine the first choice for induction in the bleeding, septic, or otherwise preload-dependent patient…

…i dag i huvudsak är förskonat från. Indikationen är verifierad eller starkt misstänkt ESBL, svikt på bredspektrumpenicillin, eller sepsis hos patient med känd multiresistent flora.

…blodtryckssänkning som är själva priset för den kontrollen. Propofol är inte analgetiskt: en patient som rör sig under ingreppet har ont, inte för lite propofol…

…och förstahandsval när warfarineffekt måste hävas omedelbart. Full effekt inom tio minuter och i en volym som en blödande patient tål, till skillnad från plasma…

…V2 receptor means it lacks the vasoconstrictive effect of vasopressin. The danger is not the drug itself but the fluid the patient drinks with it.

…be neutralised completely with protamine within minutes. This is why unfractionated heparin is the first choice in severe renal failure, in the bleeding-prone patient…

…is ineffective. Its place in treatment is the symptomatic patient with HFrEF who remains above 70 beats per minute despite maximally tolerated beta-blockade, where…

…naloxon klingar av långt före metadon, depotoxikodon och de flesta fentanylanaloger, och en patient som vaknat till kan sjunka tillbaka i apné en halvtimme senare.

…fyra doser. Naproxen har den mest gynnsamma kardiovaskulära profilen bland NSAID och är därför förstahandsval när ett NSAID måste ges till patient med hjärt-kärlsjukdom.