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In medicine, a contraindication is a condition (a situation or factor) that serves as a reason not to take a certain medical treatment due to the harm that it would cause the patient. [ 1][ 2] Contraindication is the opposite of indication, which is a reason to use a certain treatment. Absolute contraindications are contraindications for which ...
Indication (medicine) In medicine, an indication is a valid reason to use a certain test, medication, procedure, or surgery. [ 1] There can be multiple indications to use a procedure or medication. [ 2] An indication can commonly be confused with the term diagnosis.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs[ 1][ 3] ( NSAID) [ 1] are members of a therapeutic drug class which reduces pain, [ 4] decreases inflammation, decreases fever, [ 1] and prevents blood clots. Side effects depend on the specific drug, its dose and duration of use, but largely include an increased risk of gastrointestinal ulcers and bleeds ...
Beta blocker. Skeletal formula of propranolol, the first clinically successful beta blocker. Beta blockers, also spelled β-blockers, are a class of medications that are predominantly used to manage abnormal heart rhythms ( arrhythmia ), and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack ( secondary prevention ). [ 1]
OB/GYN. [ edit on Wikidata] Tocolytics (also called anti-contraction medications or labor suppressants) are medications used to suppress premature labor (from Greek τόκος tókos, "childbirth", and λύσις lúsis, "loosening"). Preterm birth accounts for 70% of neonatal deaths. [ 1] Therefore, tocolytic therapy is provided when delivery ...
Antiarrhythmic agents, also known as cardiac dysrhythmia medications, are a class of drugs that are used to suppress abnormally fast rhythms ( tachycardias ), such as atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia . Many attempts have been made to classify antiarrhythmic agents.
In pharmaceutical sciences, drug interactions occur when a drug's mechanism of action is affected by the concomitant administration of substances such as foods, beverages, or other drugs. A popular example of drug–food interaction is the effect of grapefruit on the metabolism of drugs. Interactions may occur by simultaneous targeting of ...
Heart arrhythmia. Lidocaine is a common class-1b antiarrhythmic drug; it is used intravenously for the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias (for acute myocardial infarction, digoxin poisoning, cardioversion, or cardiac catheterization) if amiodarone is not available or contraindicated. [ 10]