…child with croup or a patient with an allergic reaction to receive a full steroid dose without an injection, and the long biological duration means…

…treat the cause. What determines management is the underlying aetiology: long-acting insulin and in particular sulphonylurea require follow-up infusion and hours of monitoring…

…is well established, but depends on the patient's ability to follow the administration instructions and on adequate calcium and vitamin D status. After five…

…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.

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

…doses — good in the cold, hypoperfused patient with an acceptable blood pressure, less so when blood pressure is already low. The dose threshold lies around…

…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…

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

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

…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…

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

…prone patient, and when surgery or thrombolysis may become necessary at short notice. The disadvantages are continuous infusion, an unpredictable dose–response relationship due to…

…is the symptomatic patient with HFrEF who remains above 70 beats per minute despite maximally tolerated beta-blockade, where SHIFT demonstrated reduced risk of heart…

…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.

…80 % of absorbed drug is eliminated renally, so renal function governs treatment entirely. Dyspepsia affects one in ten patients and is the most common reason…

…It is the standard choice in pneumonia in penicillin-allergic patients and in atypical pneumonia, but the age limit of 8 years and pregnancy significantly…

…Escitalopram Accord Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) The most selective of the SSRIs and one of the best tolerated for depression and generalised anxiety disorder…

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

…The drug has two entirely different dosing worlds: a few milligrams in acute psychotic agitation in younger patients, and tenths of a milligram in delirium…

…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…