Top 200 Drugs Indications Flashcards
What are the indications for acyclovir?
Gential Herpes simplex
Herpes zoster (shingles)
Varicella (chickenpox)
Cold sores
What are the indications for amiodarone?
Secondary prophylaxis of ventricular arrhythmias
off label:
atrial fibrillation, prophylaxis after open heart surgery
supraventricular arrhythmia
atrial fibrillation, pharmacologic cardioversion
maintenance of sinus rhythm, atrial fibrillation
rate control, atrial fibrillation
What are the indications for amoxicillin?
Acute otitis media
Lower respiratory tract infection
Streptococcal pharyngitis
Ear, nose, and throat infection
H. pylori eradication
off label:
Bacterial endocarditis
Lyme disease
Anthrax
Asplenia
What are the indications for axoxicillin/clavulanate?
Acute otitis media
Community-acquired pneumonia
Lower respiratory tract infection
Sinusitis, infection of skin or subcutaneous tissue
Urinary tract infection, acute cystitis
Urinary tract infection, pyelonephritis
off label:
Streptococcal pharyngitis
Bite wound prophylaxis/treatment
What are the indications for apixaban?
Atrial fibrillation, nonvalvular
Hip or knee replacement surgery
DVT or PE (treatment or to reduce risk)
off label:
Heparin induced thrombocytopenia with thrombosis
What are the indications for aspirin?
Fever
Generalized aches, pains, headaches
What are the indications for azithromycin?
Acute infective exacerbation of COPD, skin or tissue infection
Bacterial sinusitis
Chancroid, nongonococcal cervicitis, nongonococcal urethritis
Community-acquired pneumonia
STIs
Streptococcal pharyngitis
off label:
Travelers diarrhea
What are the indications for cefdinir?
Acute otitis media, pharyngitis, tonsillitis
Bronchitis, acute, secondary bacterial infection
Community-aquired pneumonia, uncomplicated skin, or subcutaneous tissue infection
COPD, acute exacerbation
Streptococcal pharyngitis, group A
off label:
Acute uncomplicated cystitis or acute simple cystitis
UTI, including pyelonephritis
What are the indications for cephalexin?
Infection of skin/subcutaneous tissue
Osteomyelitis
Otitis media, respiratory tract infection, UTI
Streptococcal pharyngitis
Impetigo, ecthyma
Cellulitis, erysipelas
off label:
Bacterial endocarditis;prophylaxis for procedures
Prosthetic joint infection
Endocarditis, prophylaxis”
What are the indications for ciprofloxacin (oral)?
Anthrax, postexposure prophylaxis
Bacterial prostatitis, chronic
Bronchitis, lower respiratory tract infection, infection of bone, skin, or soft tissue, sinusitis
UTI
off label:
Traveler’s diarrhea
Diabetic foot infection
What are the indications for ciprofloxacin (otic)?
Otitis externa, acute
Otitis media with effusion
What are the indications for clindamycin (oral)?
Bacterial infectious disease
Infection of skin/subcutaneous tissue
Infectious disease of abdomen
Lower respiratory tract infection
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Septicemia
Osteomyelitis
Diabetic foot infection
off label:
Bacterial vaginosis, pregnant women with symptomatic disease
Streptococcal pharyngitis, penicillin-allergic patients
Prosthetic joint infection
What are the indications for clindamycin (topical)?
Acne vulgaris
Bacterial vaginosis
off label:
Acneiform eruptions
Rosacea
What are the indications for clopidogrel?
Acute ST segment elevation MI managed medically and non-ST segment elevation MI
Thrombosis prevention in arterioscelrotic vascular disease
off label:
Acute ST segment elevation MI manged with PCI
Thrombosis prevention in atrial fibrilation following elective PCI
CABG surgery
What are the indications for dapagliflozin?
Diabetes mellitus, type 2
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
off label:
Proteinuric chronic kidney disease
What are the indications for diltiazem?
HTN
Stable, chronic angina
Atrial arrhythmia and paroxysmal supraventriuclar tachycardia
off label”
HTN (children)
Pulmonary arterial HTN
What are the indications for doxycycline?
Acinetobacter infection
Acne vulgaris
Gonorrhea, uncomplicated
Staphylococcal infection of skin
Pneumonia
off label:
Lyme disease
Prosthetic joint infection
Otitis media, acute
Cellulitis, mild to moderate
What are the indications for fluconazole?
Candidal vulvovaginitis,uncomplicated
Candidial vulvovaginitis, complicated
Candidiasis, systemic
Cryptococcal meningitis
Oropharyngeal candidiasis
off label:
Onychomycosis due to dermatophyte
Tinea”
What are the indications for isosorbide mononitrate?
angina prophylaxis
What are the indications for ketoconazole (topical)?
Candidiasis of skin
Dandruff
Pityriasis versicolor
Seborrheic dermititis
Tinea corporis
Tinea cruris
Tinea pedis
What are the indications for metronidazole?
Abscess, anaerobic
Amebic dysentery, acute
Bacterial vaginosis
Trichomoniasis
off label:
C diff infection
H pylori GI tract infection
Giardiasis
What are the indications for nitrofurantoin?
UTI treatment
UTI prophylaxis
Asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy
What are the indications for nitroglycerin?
Angina prophylaxis
Angina, acute
Anal fissure, chronic
What are the indications for oseltamivir phosphate?
Influenza type A and B treatment
Influenza type A and B prophylaxis
What are the indications for rivaroxaban?
Prevention of thromboembolism in patients after orthopedic surgery
Prevention of thromboembolism in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation
Treatment and secondary prevention of DVT or pulmonary embolism
Coronary artery disease or peripheral artery disease
off label:
Acute coronary syndrome
What are the indications for sacubritril/valsartan?
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
What are the indications for torsemide?
Edema related to heart failure, renal failure, hepatic cirrhosis
HTN
What are the indications for trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole?
Acute infective exacerbation of COPD
HIV infection
HIV infection, prophylaxis
Traveler’s diarrhea
UTI
off label:
Sinusitis
Prostatitis
What are the indications for valacyclovir?
Gential Herpes simplex
Herpes zoster (shingles)
Varicella (chickenpox)
Cold sores
What are the indications for verapamil?
Angina
Atrial arrhythmia or paroxysmal supraventriuclar tachycardia prophyalxis
HTN
off label:
Cluster headache
What are the indications for warfarin?
Atrial fibrillation
Myocardial infarction
Prosthetic cardiac valve component embolism
pulmonary embolism
post-myocardial infarction
Venous thromboembolism
off label:
Prevention of transient ischemic attacks
