…formulation: the soluble tablet allows a child with croup or a patient with an allergic reaction to receive a full steroid dose without an injection…

Procoralan Ivabradine Accord Selective If-channel inhibitor in the sinus node The only drug that reduces heart rate without affecting contractility, blood pressure, or conduction…

Zyrlex Cetirizin Sandoz Cetirizin Teva Second-generation H₁-antihistamine First-line treatment for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and chronic urticaria — one tablet daily, available without prescription, with…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…vascular resistance falls at low doses — good in the cold, hypoperfused patient with an acceptable blood pressure, less so when blood pressure is already low…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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

…unfractionated heparin is the first choice in severe renal failure, in the bleeding-prone patient, and when surgery or thrombolysis may become necessary at short…

…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.

…10–17 timmar, vilket gör att dosering morgon och kväll räcker för att hålla jämn effekt genom dygnet. Det passar tillstånd med kontinuerlig inflammatorisk smärta…

…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…

…20–30 minutes after the infusion ends, it is useful in patients where beta-blockade is desirable but risky — impending heart failure, obstructive lung disease…

…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…