Medical Reference for Common OTC Prescription and Drugs

Eating a wholesome breakfast will not only kick start your metabolism, it will also make you crave less throughout the day, meaning you stay away from the vending machine for longer. Another way to prevent cravings and stick to a healthy diet is to eat an assortment of smaller meals throughout the day. On top [...]

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Pathophysiology of Circulatory Failure Circulatory failure, or the inability of the heart to provide sufficient cardiac output to sat­isfy tissue metabolic requirements, is the most important and most common cause of altered pharmacokinetics during cardiac emergencies. Circulatory failure may result from decreased myocardial contractility, arrhythmias that allow insufficient time for diastolic filling or impair atrioventricular [...]

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Synopsis of Important Principles 1. Specific antidotal therapy is available for very few poisons. The mainstay of treatment of severe poisoning is intensive supportive therapy and good nursing care. 2. The great majority of poisoned patients recover with intensive supportive therapy alone, and enthusiastic claims for the success of other treatment often cannot be justified. [...]

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Gastric Aspiration and Lavage Although unabsorbed drug in the stomach may be removed by gastric aspiration and lav­age its usefulness in practice has been seriously questioned (Proudfoot 1984). Most drugs and poisons seem to be absorbed rapidly and this technique is unlikely to be productive more than 4 hours after ingestion, unless gastric emptying has [...]

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The idea that drug concentrations could be measured and used to guide therapeutic deci­sions was first applied to quinidine when it was used to convert the cardiac rhythm of patients with atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm (Sokolow & Ball 1956). Although quinidine is rarely used for this purpose today, because of the advent of DC [...]

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