Additional Drugs with Narrow therapeutic index 2 Flashcards
A medication used to treat life threatening ventricular arrhythmias
Procainamide
An antiepileptic agent used for the management of generalized convulsive status epilepticus and prevention and treatment of seizures occurring during neurosurgery.
Fosphenytoin
An aminoglycoside used to treat a wide variety of aerobic infections in the body.
Gentamycin
A medication used to treat manic episodes of bipolar disorder.
Lithium carbonate
A calcineurin inhibitor used to prevent organ transplant rejection and to treat moderate to severe atopic dermatitis.
Tacrolimus
An mTOR inhibitor immunosuppressant used to prevent organ transplant rejections, treat lymphangioleiomyomatosis, and treat adults with perivascular epithelioid cell tumors.
Sirolimus
A antineoplastic agent used in the treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) that works by inhibiting mTOR.
Temsirolimus
A barbiturate used to induce general anesthesia, treat convulsions, and reduce intracranial pressure.
Thiopental
An antipsychotic used to manage debilitating motor and phonic tics in patients with Tourette’s Disorder.
Pimozide
A medication used to restore normal sinus rhythm, treat atrial fibrillation and flutter, and treat ventricular arrhythmias.
Quinidine
An anticoagulant indicated for thromboprophylaxis and to treat thrombosis associated with a variety of conditions such as pulmonary embolism and atrial fibrillation.
Heparin
A glycopeptide antibiotic used to treat severe but susceptible bacterial infections such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections.
Vancomycin
A bronchodilator consisting of theophylline that is used for the treatment of bronchospasm due to asthma, emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Aminophylline
An aminoglycoside used to treat infections caused by more resistant strains of Gram negative bacteria and some Gram positive bacteria.
Amikacin
An antifungal used to treat fungal infections in neutropenic patients, cryptococcal meningitis in HIV infection, fungal infections, and leishmaniasis.
Amphotericin B
An anticonvulsant used to control complex partial seizures and both simple and complex absence seizures.
Valproic acid
A class III antiarrhythmic indicated for the treatment of recurrent hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia and recurrent ventricular fibrillation.
Amiodarone
A class III antiarrhythmic drug used for the maintenance of normal sinus rhythm and cardioversion in cases of atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter.
Dofetilide
A methane sulfonanilide beta adrenergic antagonist used to treat life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias and to maintain sinus rhythm in atrial fibrillation or flutter.
Sotalol
A synthetic direct thrombin inhibitor used for the prevention and treatment of thrombosis related to heparin use.
Argatroban
A mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase inhibitor used to treat various types of malignancies.
Everolimus
An immunosuppressant used to prevent organ transplant rejections.
Mycophenolic acid
is a tricyclic antidepressant which has been used in Europe since 1974. It is the isobutyl side chain homologue of amitriptyline
Butriptyline
A tricyclic antidepressant indicated in the treatment of depressive disorders.
Amitriptylinoxide
