Common indications Flashcards
Codeine
Pain relief
Diarrhoea
Dry of painful cough
Omeprazole
Acid-related dyspepsia
Gastric and duodenal ulceration
GORD
Helicobacter Pylori eradication
NSAID-associated gastric and duodenal ulceration
Amlodipine
Angina prophylaxis
Hypertension
Bisoprolol
Angina
Chronic heart failure
Hypertension
Chloramphenicol
Bacterial conjunctivitis
Bacterial infection in otitis externa
Superficial eye infections
Chlorphenamine
Chicken pox associated itch
Emergency treatment of anaphylaxis
Symptomatic relief of allergy symptoms (e.g. hay fever)
Clotrimazole
Fungal infection in otitis externa
Fungal skin infections
Vaginal candidiasis
Doxazosin
Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Hypertension
Fluconazole
Invasive candidal infections
Prevention of fungal infections in immunocompromised patients
Prevention of relapse of cryptococcal meningitis in HI infected patients
Tinea pedis, corporis, cruris, pityriasis versicolor
Vaginal, mucosal and dermal candidiasis
Furosemide
Oedema
resistant hypertension
Hydrocortisone
Adrenal replacement therapy in adrenocortical insufficiency
Inflammatory skin conditions
Suppression of allergic and inflammatory disorders (e.g. hypersensitivity reactions, asthma, severe inflammatory bowel disease, haemorrhoids, rheumatic disease)
Hyoscine butylbromide
Bowel colic
gastro-intertinal or genito-urinary disorders characterised by smooth muscle spasm
IBS
Management of excessive respiratory secretions in palliative care
Hyoscine hydrobromide
Motion sickness
Hypersalivation associated with clozapine therapy
Excessive respiratory secetion in pallitive care
Bowel colic in pallitive care
Ibuprofen
Pain and inflammation
Acute migraine
Indapamide
Hypertension
