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Contraindications Flashcards

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Contraindications for Adrenaline?

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Nil in the emergency setting

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Contraindications for Aspirin?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Patients less than 18 years old
  • Chest pain associated with psychostimulant overdose
  • Bleeding OR clotting disorders
  • Current GI bleeding or peptic ulcers
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Contraindications for Ceftriaxone?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction

- Known severe allergic reaction to Penicillin

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Contraindications for Droperidol?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Previous dystonic reaction to Droperidol
  • Patients less than 14 years old
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Contraindications for Fentanyl?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction

- Patients less than 1 year old

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Contraindications for Fexofenadine?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Patients less than 12 years old
  • Previous administration within 24 hours
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Contraindications for Glucagon?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
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Contraindications for Glucose 10%?

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Nil

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Contraindications for Glucose Gel?

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  • Absent swallowing ability
  • Less than 2 years old
  • Unconsciousness
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Contraindications for Glyceryl Trinitrate?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Heart rate < 50 or > 150 bpm
  • Systolic BP < 100 mmHg
  • Acute CVA
  • Head trauma
  • Use of Viagra, Cialis or Levitra in previous 24 hours
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Contraindications for Ibuprofen?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Current gastrointestinal bleeding or peptic ulcers
  • Dehydration and/or hypovolaemia
  • Renal impairment
  • Pregnancy
  • Heart failure
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Contraindications for Ipratropium Bromide?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction

- Patients less than 1 year old

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Contraindications for Loratadine?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Patients less than 8 year s old
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Contraindications for Methoxyflurane?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Severe renal or hepatic impairment
  • Pre-eclampsia or eclampsia
  • History of malignant hyperthermia
  • Patients less than 1 year old
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Contraindications for Metoclopramide?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Suspected intestinal / bowel obstruction
  • Suspected or known haematemesis / melaena (i.e. vomiting blood, bloody faeces)
  • Paediatric patients less than 15 years old
  • Pregnant patients
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Contraindications for Midazolam?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
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Contraindications for Morphine?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Renal failure
  • Patients less than 1 year old
  • Pregnant women greater than 20 weeks gestation in labour
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Contraindications for Naloxone?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction

- Newborns

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Contraindications for Ondansetron?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction
  • Long QT syndrome
  • Patients less than 2 years old
  • Current apomorphine therapy (Parkinson’s disease medication)
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Contraindications for Oxygen?

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  • Nil in the emergency setting
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Contraindications for Paracetamol?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction

- Patients less than 1 month old

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Contraindications for Salbutamol?

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  • Known severe allergic reaction

- Patients less than 1 year old

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