Drugs may be useful for following purposes: To eradicate H pylori infection To decrease the gastric acid secretion (Anti-secretory drugs) To give mucosal protective effect…
I advise you to go through the two videos to have overview of the topic of antianginal drugs. Angina is chest pain due to ischemia.…
Lets rapidly overview the topic of heart failure with the two video sessions, then go through the text material, and again come back to the…
There are 3 videos for you: Narcosis means central nervous system depression. (CNS depression) Narcotic analgesics are the drugs which relieve pain and also produce…
The basic meaning behind the two terms – Laxative and Purgative – is same. It basically means – to increase the gastrointestinal motility. If the…
Prokinetics are the drugs which stimulate the forward movement of the gastrointestinal tract; whereas Anti-emetics help prevent or stop vomiting. Since some prokinetics do have…
General Anesthetics are the drugs that enter the systemic circulation, and produce loss of all sensations throughout the body and loss of consciousness. These…
The word NSAID is expanded as Non Steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs. The same group of drugs are also called Non-Narcotic Analgesics or Analgesic-Antipyretic-Anti-inflammatory Drugs.…
Sedative-Hypnotic is a combined word indicating the degree of central nervous system (CNS) depression. Sedative-Hypnotic drugs are are also referred to as Hypno-Sedative…
One logical way of classifying the drugs used in bronchial asthma is on the basis of short term action or long term effect. Thus…