…acting antidote — idarucizumab achieves complete reversal within minutes, which weighs heavily in patients who may need emergency surgery. The price is that approximately 80 % of…

…agonist The only antihypertensive that increases renal perfusion while blood pressure falls. A selective D1 agonist without alpha or beta effects, with onset within minutes…

…healthcare and simultaneously the insulin used for intravenous infusion in diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state. Subcutaneously it has an onset within 10–20 minutes…

…to two hours, the effect can be measured in real time with APTT, and it can be neutralised completely with protamine within minutes. This is…

…fast and reliable — high lipid solubility gives onset within a couple of minutes intravenously, and the rectal solution works when no intravenous access is available…

…hypoglycaemia The first-line treatment for severe hypoglycaemia in a patient who cannot swallow and in whom intravenous access is available. The effect arrives within…

…agonist Formoterol is the only long-acting β₂-agonist with onset within a few minutes, and that property is precisely what makes the combination useful…

…unavailable — the effect arrives within ten minutes through hepatic glycogenolysis. In beta-blocker intoxication, glucagon is instead an inotrope that bypasses the blocked beta receptor…

…dosing and no routine monitoring. Lower risk of intracranial haemorrhage than warfarin — but the short half-life means a missed dose has consequences within hours.

…which is the entire explanation for why the drug is ineffective in infranodal block. The effect comes within one minute and fades over an hour…

…with ECG changes: calcium restores the margin between resting membrane potential and threshold potential and protects the myocardium against arrhythmia within minutes — but does not…

Regitin Rogitine OraVerse Non-selective α-adrenergic blocker Non-selective alpha-blocker with onset within minutes and duration under half an hour. A niche drug…