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Avoid same area for 7 day buprenorphine patches for how long?
- 3 weeks
- Butec / Butrans / Reletrans
72hr buprenorphine patches:
Avoid same area for how long?
- 7 days
- Hapoctasin / Prenotrix
96hr buprenorphine patches:
Avoid same area for how long?
- 7 days
- Transtec / Bupeaze / Relevtec
Used for symptoms of opioid withdrawal?
Lofexidine
Used to prevent relapse in opioid substitution therapy
Naltrexone
What is delirium tremens and what is the treatment?
MEDICAL EMERGENCY - severe form of alcohol withdrawal: - agitation - confusion - paranoia - visual and auditory hallucinations
1st line: Lorazepam
2nd line: Haloperidol or Parenteral lorazepam as adjunctive therapy
What is Wernicke’s Encephalopathy and how is it treated?
- Neurological disease caused by thiamine deficiency
- patient with alcohol dependence, malnourished or liver disease at high risk
1st line: Parenteral thiamine followed by oral thiamine
Impulse control disorders, sleepiness & hallucinations most common with which Parkinson’s drug?
Dopamine-receptor agonists
E.g. ropinirole
Usual dose for bendroflumethiazide in hyptertension?
2.5mg OD
Which drug used for anaesthesia has the most rapid recovery and minimal hangover effect?
Propofol
Cardiovascular and respiratory depression can occur with this anaesthetic drug
Thiopental sodium
No analgesic properties & sedative effects persist for 24 hours
Thiopental sodium
Anaesthetic associated with rapid recovery with NO hangover effect
Etomidate
This anaesthetic causes less hypotension but a high incidence of muscle movements
Etomidate
Used mainly in paediatric anaesthesia but associated with hallucinations and nightmares?
Ketamine
