During the COVID-19 pandemic, you need to continue to take your usual medicines and stay as healthy as possible. Here is some important information for everyone to keep in mind.
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There are more than a dozen different inhaled medicines for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and multiple devices. How can you help your patients get the best out of theirs?
Naloxone is a competitive antagonist at opioid receptors. It can be administered to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Patients may be susceptible to adverse drug events during acute illness due to comorbidities or medicine use.
There are morbidity and mortality benefits for infants who are breastfed for longer periods. Occasionally, drugs are used to improve the milk supply.
This free course will guide you through the adverse event reporting process. Reporting adverse events is important to ensure that therapeutic products continue to be safe.
If there are no features of serious disease, suspected gastro-oesophageal reflux disease can be initially managed with a trial of a proton pump inhibitor for 4–8 weeks. This should be taken 30–60 minutes before food for optimal effect.
Charlotte Keung and Geoffrey Hebbard, Aust Prescr 2016:39:6-10
Chronic hepatitis C infection causes cirrhosis, liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma, and is the most common indication for liver transplantation. Hepatitis C is curable and complications can be prevented.
Alex J Thompson and Jacinta A Holmes, Aust Prescr 2015;38:191-7
Most commonly used drugs are relatively safe for breastfed babies. The dose received via milk is generally small and much less than the known safe doses of the same drug given directly to neonates and infants.
Persistent cigarette smokers usually have a nicotine addiction. This addiction has a chronic relapsing and sometimes remitting course and may persist lifelong.
Mike McDonough, Aust Prescr 2015;38:106-11
