Treatment of nerve agent exposure, Cardiac arrhythmia’s (Heart Blocks, Bradycardia, Arrest) Preoperatively to decrease oral and gastric secretions, ophthalmic to dilate eyes, oral inhalation for short treatment and prevention of bronchospasms associated with asthma, bronchitis, COPD and as a drying ...
Oral contraceptives, also known as birth control pills, are frequently used to treat acne that comes and goes with themenstrual cycle. The drugs are able to reduceoil gland secretionsby suppressingandrogen hormones.2They also serve a dual purpose for those seeking an effective birth control method...
56 To reduce the risk of a life-threatening skin rash, lamotrigine must be titrated slowly55,56 and should not be use as the first-line therapy in acute mania (as practical medications for mania must be titrated quickly to effect). For maintenance therapy in bipolar disorder, the initial ...
Therefore, the primary goal for the patients preoperatively is to reduce anxiety and to induce sedation. Furthermore, if indicated, premedication should minimize the risk of an aspiration syndrome, prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), provide analgesia, reduce secretions and control ...
Ipratropium bromide (Atrovent) is a prescription medication that can be used to reduce runny nose. How anticholinergic nasal sprays work: When sprayed into each nostril, anticholinergic nasal sprays decrease secretions from the glands lining the nasal passage. This diminishes the symptom of runny nose...
Intravenous heparin is started once a pulmonary embolism is diagnosed to reduce clot formation. When a therapeutic level of heparin is established, warfarin is started. It can take up to three days before a therapeutic level of warfarin is achieved. Streptokinase is a fibrinolytic, usefulness in...
inflammatory response, since an object of embodiments of the invention is to reduce inflammation of the mucosal tissue which may be caused by allergic responses. Mucosal adjuvants for use in this invention therefore preferably are minimally irritating to the mucosal tissue to which they are applied....
After gastric emptying into the duodenum, lipophilic drugs may require bile and pancreatic secretions for solubility/dissolution [16], while in some malabsorptive bariatric procedures (e.g., RYGB) upper small intestinal segments are bypassed, and these secretions are diverted to lower segments, which...
The nature of the spread of respiratory viruses is typically associated with respiratory droplets, aerosol transmission, and physical contact with respiratory secretions [2,3]. The potential of SARS-CoV-2 to infect the ocular epithelia and mucosa has been highlighted through ocular surface exposure ...