Since the elderly appear to be at high risk for digoxin toxicity, the inappropriate use of this medication to treat these conditions could result in significant and unnecessary morbidity. It is proposed that echocardiography should be performed in most elderly patients when congestive heart failure is...
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...
Diuretics can increase blood sugar levels and insulin resistance, so you have to be careful if you're diabetic. Diuretics can also raise uric acid levels, which is a problem if you have gout. Low potassium levels are also likely to cause heart rhythm problems, especially when digoxin is ...
Since the elderly appear to be at high risk for digoxin toxicity, the inappropriate use of this medication to treat these conditions could result in significant and unnecessary morbidity. It is proposed that echocardiography should be performed in most elderly patients when congestive heart failure is...
They are more likely to be on medicines with a narrow margin between being effective or toxic such as warfarin, insulin, digoxin, and anti-seizure medications. Their bodies tend to have more fat and less water which may increase the duration of effect of certain drugs. In addition, ...
or torsades de pointes, a heart rhythm disorder. Digitalis is a chemical found in plants such as foxgloves and is used to produce digoxin, a drug used to treat cardiacarrhythmiaandcongestive heart failure. Digitalis toxicity causes arrhythmia and magnesium stabilize the heartbeat impulse generation....
(1) Acute toxicity: Oral administration of Trazodone hydrochloride LDso/] to rats is 610 mg/kg, rats are 486 mg/kg, and rabbits are 560 mg/kg. A lethal dose can cause symptoms such as dyspnea, salivation, collapse, and convulsions in animals. ...
aAnyway, life is still continuing, trying to do the things they want, no matter how well things have changed to treat Relax, generous in the face of all the things for their own fuel, hard. . . .Persist 无论如何,生活仍然是继续,设法做他们要的事,无论好的事变成了款待放松,慷慨在所有事...
and they may be called upon to treat patients with thrombocytopenia. Patients with thrombocytopenia due to an underlying disease or condition will also be managed by the specialists that treat these underlying conditions, including infectious disease specialists, rheumatologists, oncologists, and others....
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...