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

…carbohydrate solution for acute hypoglycaemia The first-line treatment for severe hypoglycaemia in a patient who cannot swallow and in whom intravenous access is available…

…Sandoz Fosavance Aminobisphosphonate First-line agent for osteoporosis and the best-documented fracture-preventing treatment in primary care. Efficacy for vertebral and hip fractures is…

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

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

Dobutamin Hameln Synthetic catecholamine, β₁-agonist (inotropy) Pure inotropy when the problem is the pump and not vascular tone. Strong β₁ effect with marked β₂…

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

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

…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…

…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.

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

…blood pressure, or conduction — it inhibits the funny current (If) that drives spontaneous depolarisation of the sinus node and does nothing else. It therefore works…

…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.

…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.

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

…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…

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

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

…poorly, but it is not entirely free of sedation: a distinct minority of patients become drowsy, and this should be asked about in professional drivers…