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- Generic Name: buprenorphine and naloxone
- Trade Name: Suboxone
- Indications: used to treat narcotic (opiate) addiction
- Dose Range and Routes: Sublingual film, day 1 up tp 8 mg/2mg sublingually. Maintenance of progressively adjusting in increments/decrements of 2mg/0.5 mg or 4mg/1mg to a level that holds the patient in treatment and suppresses opioid withdrawal symptoms.
- Side Effects: constipation, drunk feeling, nausea, vomiting, insomnia
- Special Considerations:
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- Generic Name: Aluminum hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, and simethicone
- Trade Name: Mylanta
- Indications: used to ease too much gas in the stomach, treat heartburn and upset stomach
- Dose Range and Routes: shake well before use. Take after meals and at bedtime.
- Side Effects: chalky taste, constipation or diarrhea
- Special Considerations: give other drugs 1 hour before or 2 hours after giving antiacid.
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- Generic Name: pantoprazole
- Trade Name: Protonix
- Indications: blocks gastric acid production. Used to treat severe esophagitis, GERD, and gastric and duodenal ulcers.
- Dose Range and Routes: should not be crushed. initial 40mg once daily for 8 weeks, maintenance 40 mg/day.
- Side Effects: rash (do not give next due unless approved by nurse), muscle cramps, tremors or seizures
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- Generic Name: Oxybutynin
- Trade Name: Ditropan
- Indications: treatment for OAB. reduces muscle spams of the bladder and urinary tract.
- Dose Range and Routes: initial due 5mg two or three times daily. max dose 20 mg daily
- Side Effects: dry mouth, urinary retention, constipation, bloating
- Special Considerations: should not take if you have untreated or uncontrolled narrow-angle glaucoma
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- Generic Name: Oxybutynin
- Trade Name: Ditropan XL
- Indications: treatment for OAB. reduces muscle spams of the bladder and urinary tract.
- Dose Range and Routes: initial due 5mg two or three times daily. max dose 20 mg daily
- Side Effects: dry mouth, urinary retention, constipation, bloating
- Special Considerations: should not take if you have untreated or uncontrolled narrow-angle glaucoma
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- Generic Name: esomeprazole
- Trade Name: Nexium
- Indications: used to treat severe esophagitis, GERD, and gastric and duodenal ulcers.
- Dose Range and Routes: initial 40 mg daily for 8 weeks, maintenance 40 mg daily
- Side Effects: muscle cramps, tremors, nausea, diarrhea
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- Generic Name: docusate and senna
- Trade Name: Senokot S
- Indications: stool softener and laxative combination used to treat occasional constipation
- Dose Range and Routes: take with a full glass of water, best at night. Should cause a bowel movement in 6-12 hours. do not take for more than 7 days in a row. Chew tablet
- Side Effects: gas, bloating, diarrhea, mild nausea
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- Generic Name: docusate sodium
- Trade Name: Colace
- Indications: draws water into the feces, softening them
- Dose Range and Routes: follow directions on MAR and container. usually 50-300 mg/day in 1-4 doses
- Side Effects: may not have any, serious ones would be abdominal tenderness, bleeding, vomiting
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- Generic Name: polyethylene glycol 3350
- Trade Name: MiraLAX
- Indications: draws electrolytes and water into the intestines from surrounding tissues, resulting in diarrhea that cleanses the bowel so that the intestines can be seen during diagnostic procedures.
- Dose Range and Routes: usual adult dose - 17g diluted in 8 fl oz orally once a day
- Side Effects: bloating, gas, dizziness, increased sweating
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- Generic Name: Magnesium hydroxide
- Trade Name: Phillips' milk of magnesia
- Indications: usually acts in 1-3 hours. draws water into intestine
- Dose Range and Routes: follow instruction
- Side Effects: diarrhea, a decreased sense of taste
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- Generic Name: Sildenafil
- Trade Name: Viagra
- Indications: helps smooth muscle relaxation, allowing blood to fill the erectile tissue in the penis during sexual stimulation
- Dose Range and Routes: initial of 50 mg, max 100mg/24
- Side Effects: Priapism (prolonged erection), headache, hypotension, angina
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- Generic Name: tolterodine
- Trade Name: Detrol
- Indications: used to treat OAB
- Dose Range and Routes: initial 1-2 mg twice daily based on individual
- Side Effects: dry mouth, urinary retention, constipation, blurred vision
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- Trade Name: capsicum
- Indications: herbal medicine used to help with throat irritation or stomach ailments
- Dose Range and Routes: orally, take pills with full glass of water
- Side Effects: upset stomach, heartburn, diarrhea, burning sensation in throat or mouth or with skin contact
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- Generic Name: Evening Primrose oil
- Indications: research shows if taken daily for 6-12 months it improves symptoms of nerve damage caused by diabetes
- Dose Range and Routes: 2-6 g by mouth daily for 3-12 months
- Side Effects: nausea, diarrhea, headache
- Special Considerations: do not take with anticoagulents
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- Generic Name: Jevity
- Trade Name: Jevity 1.0 CAL
- Indications: fiber-fortified therapeutic nutrition that provides complete balanced nutrition for long or short term tube feeding
- Dose Range and Routes: 5-10 mg
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