Medical Reference for Common OTC Prescription and Drugs

Brand name Glyset, Miglitol is prescribed for treating Diabetes Type 2 . This is an Antidiabetic medication. Generic Ingredients are :- Acarbose, Precose. General Information of the drug Miglitol works differently from other oral antidiabetes drugs, which control blood sugar levels by increasing the production of insulin or helping the body to use the hormone [...]

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A Benzodiazepine sedative class type of dug , Clorazepate is generic drug name for Gen-Xene, Tranxene, Tranxene-SD , Tranxene T-Tab. It is commonly prescribe for treating several conditions :- Anxiety, tension, symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal, partial seizures, fatigue, agitation, irritable bowel syndrome, and panic attacks. General Information of the drug Clorazepate dipotassium is a benzodiazepine, [...]

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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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Amiodarone is generic drug name for Cordarone , Pacerone . It is prescribed for treating Abnormal Heart Rhythms. General Information Amiodarone works by decreasing the sensitivity of heart tissue to nervous impulses within the heart. It should be prescribed only in situations where the abnormal rhythm is so severe as to be life-threatening and does [...]

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