…is a distinctive formulation: the soluble tablet allows a child with croup or a patient with an allergic reaction to receive a full steroid dose…

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

…fracture-preventing treatment in primary care. Efficacy for vertebral and hip fractures is well established, but depends on the patient's ability to follow the…

…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.

…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 means that stroke volume increases while systemic vascular resistance falls at low doses — good in the cold, hypoperfused patient with an acceptable blood pressure…

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

…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…

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

…Pseudomonas och anaerober, och penetrerar CNS tillräckligt för meningitbehandling. Just därför ett reservpreparat — varje dygn av meropenem driver karbapenemresistens som Sverige i dag i huvudsak…

…priset för den kontrollen. Propofol är inte analgetiskt: en patient som rör sig under ingreppet har ont, inte för lite propofol. Dosen bestäms av cirkulationen…

Ocplex Confidex Fyrfaktorkoncentrat med faktor II, VII, IX och X Plasmaframställt koncentrat av de fyra K-vitaminberoende koagulationsfaktorerna och förstahandsval när warfarineffekt måste hävas omedelbart…

…V2 agonist) The same substance is used for four entirely different indications with doses differing up to a hundredfold — antidiuretic substitution in central diabetes insipidus…

…choice in severe renal failure, in the bleeding-prone patient, and when surgery or thrombolysis may become necessary at short notice. The disadvantages are continuous…

…atrial fibrillation the rate control sits in the AV node and ivabradine is ineffective. Its place in treatment is the symptomatic patient with HFrEF who…

…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.

…Icke-selektiv COX-hämmare, propionsyraderivat med lång halveringstid NSAID med lång halveringstid, 10–17 timmar, vilket gör att dosering morgon och kväll räcker för att…

…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.

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

…capped at 20 mg for adults and 10 mg for patients over 65 years. In the elderly, hyponatraemia is the adverse effect most often causing…

Brevibloc Ultra-short-acting β₁-selective blocker The beta-blocker to choose when reversibility matters. With a half-life of 9 minutes and the effect…

…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…

…for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and chronic urticaria — one tablet daily, available without prescription, with good effect on itching, sneezing, and rhinorrhoea but weaker on nasal congestion…