Digoxin immune FAB (antidote): Digoxin immune FAB is a sterile preparation of antibody fragments obtained from sheep immunized with a digoxin derivative and is used to treat digoxin overdose. Digoxin is a drug prescribed to treatheart failureand abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) and digoxin immune...
cimetidine (Tagamet), digoxin, St. John's wort, tamoxifen, theophylline, tryptophan (sometimes called L-tryptophan), warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven); a diuretic or "water pill"; heart rhythm medicine; HIV or AIDS medications; certain medicines to treat narcolepsy or ADHD - amphetamine, ...
Atenolol is used to treatangina(chest pain) and hypertension (high blood pressure). Atenolol is also used to lower the risk of death after aheart attack. Warnings You should not use this atenolol if you have a serious heart condition such as "AV block," very slow heartbeats, or heart fai...
Dizziness, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting may occur after overdose. Trazodone has no specific rescue drug. Once overdose occurs, treatment must be carried out in accordance with the general principles of drug overdose treatment to ensure symptomatic and supportive treatment. Adverse reactions Common adv...
Digitalis is a very useful plant that is still used to treat heart ailments. Three main glycosides can be extracted from it : digitoxin, digoxin, and ouabain. They differ in their half-lives, from longest to shortest, respectively, though digoxin ( brand name Lanoxin) is the one most common...
Using charcoal for medicinal purposes has a long history (see the sidebar "Activated charcoal administration through the ages"). More recently, activated charcoal has been used to treat toxic ingestions and continues to be a form of gastrointestinal (GI) decontamination for poisoned patients—both hu...
Weak point is pre-eminently a consequence of conduc- tion cube resulting from focal demyelination; as such it time after time responds well to treat- ment. These three anticonvulsant agents have been shown to abate spasm fre- quency including drop attacks past up half in as much as one-half...
Each flower tube has a small lip on which bumblebees can land to access the nectar at the base of the tube. Hummingbirds may also visit the flowers. The flower blooms from late spring through midsummer and then dies. Therefore, for continuous blooms, plant it for two consecutive years. ...