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CICATRIN® Glaxo Wellcome Bacitracin – Neomycin Sulfate – Amino Acids Antibiotic – Tissue Healant Indications And Clinical Uses: As a prophylactic or treatment and healing agent for surface wounds, minor burns, and stasis ulcers. Not recommended for the treatment of superficial fungal infections. The use of the powder does not exclude concomitant systemic therapy with antibiotics where appropriate. Contra-Indications: Patients who have demonstrated allergic hypersensitivity to the product or any…

CEPTAZ® Glaxo Wellcome Ceftazidime Antibiotic Action And Clinical Pharmacology: In vitro studies indicate that the bactericidal action of ceftazidime, a semisynthetic cephalosporin antibiotic, results from inhibition of bacterial cell wall synthesis. Ceftazidime has a high affinity for the Penicillin-Binding Protein-3 (PBP-3) and moderate affinity for the PBP-1a of certain gram negative organisms such as E. coli and P. aeruginosa. The affinity for PBP-1b is much less than that for either…

CENTRUM® CENTRUM® FORTE CENTRUM® PROTEGRA CENTRUM® SELECT Whitehall-Robins Multiple Vitamins – Minerals Vitamin-Mineral Supplement Indications And Clinical Uses: For use as a nutritional supplement. Contra-Indications: In the presence of hemochromatosis, hemosiderosis, hemolytic anemia. Precautions: Oral iron preparations may aggravate existing peptic ulcer, regional enteritis and ulcerative colitis. Oral iron preparations can impair the absorption of tetracycline antibiotics. Antacids given concomitantly with iron compounds decrease iron absorption. Adverse Reactions: Rarely, in…

CARDENE® Roche Nicardipine HCl Antianginal – Antihypertensive Action And Clinical Pharmacology: Nicardipine is a calcium ion influx inhibitor (calcium entry blocker or calcium ion antagonist). The therapeutic effect of this group of drugs is believed to be related to their specific cellular action of selectively inhibiting transmembrane influx of calcium ions into cardiac muscle and vascular smooth muscle. The contractile processes of these tissues are dependent upon the movement of…

CARDIZEM® INJECTABLE Hoechst Marion Roussel Diltiazem HCl Antiarrhythmic Action And Clinical Pharmacology: Mechanism of Action: Diltiazem inhibits the influx of calcium ions during membrane depolarization of cardiac and vascular smooth muscle. The therapeutic benefits of diltiazem in supraventricular tachycardias are related to its ability to slow atrioventricular (AV) nodal conduction time and prolong AV nodal refractoriness. Diltiazem exhibits frequency (use) dependent effects on AV nodal conduction such that it may…

CARDIZEM® CARDIZEM® SR CARDIZEM® CD Hoechst Marion Roussel Diltiazem HCl Antianginal Antihypertensive – Antianginal Action And Clinical Pharmacology: Diltiazem is a calcium ion influx inhibitor (calcium entry blocker or calcium ion antagonist). The therapeutic effect of this group of drugs is believed to be related to their specific cellular action of selectively inhibiting transmembrane influx of calcium ions into cardiac muscle and vascular smooth muscle. The contractile processes of these…

CANTHACUR® Pharmascience Cantharidin Vesicant Indications And Clinical Uses: For the topical use of removal of benign epithelial growths such as warts (verruca vulgaris) or molluscum contagiosum. Because of the absence of scarring, cantharidin is useful for treating exposed areas where cosmetic results are important. Painless application and the absence of instruments makes it especially useful for treating children. Contra-Indications: Hypersensitivity to the ingredients. Avoid alcoholic beverages for several hours after…

CALCIUM STANLEY Stanley Calcium Glucoheptonate – Calcium Gluconate Calcium Therapy Indications And Clinical Uses: As a dietary supplement where calcium intake may be inadequate: childhood and adolescence, pregnancy and lactation, postmenopausal females and in the aged. In the treatment of calcium deficiency states which may occur in diseases such as: tetany of the newborn (as a supplement to parenterally administered calcium), hypoparathyroidism (acute and chronic), pseudohypoparathyroidism, postmenopausal and senile osteoporosis,…

CALCIMAR® Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Calcitonin Salmon Paget’s Disease Therapy – Hypercalcemia Treatment Action And Clinical Pharmacology: Calcitonin is a group of polypeptide hormones secreted by the thyroid gland in mammals and by the ultimobranchial gland of birds and fish. It is of physiological importance in the regulation of calcium metabolism in certain animal species, and may also have physiological importance in certain extra skeletal systems (e.g., gastrointestinal and renal function). Only…

CALCIUM SALTS: PARENTERAL General Monograph, Calcium Therapy Pharmacology: Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body and is essential for maintaining the functional integrity of nervous and musculoskeletal systems as well as cell membrane and capillary permeability. The majority (99%) of body calcium is contained in bone with the remainder equally distributed between intra- and extracellular fluids. Calcium is an activator in many enzymatic reactions and is necessary…