Pharmacological management

Woolf CJ (2004) Pain moving from symptom control toward mechanism-specific pharmacologic management. Ann Intern Med 140 441-451... 

Pharmacological management of risk factors through antihypertensive, antihyperlipidemic, and antidiabetic therapy coupled with antiplatelet drugs comprise the... 

Rasmussen SA, Eisen JL, Pato MT (1993). Current issues in the pharmacologic management of obsessive compulsive disorder. J Clin Psychiatry 54 (suppl. 6), 4—9. 

Acute Pharmacological Management of Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction... 

Anti-reflux surgery or endoscopic therapies offer an alternative treatment for refractory GERD or when pharmacologic management is undesirable. 

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. ASHP therapeutic guidelines on the pharmacologic management of nausea and vomiting in adult and pediatric patients receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy or undergoing surgery. Am J Health-Syst Pharm 1999 56 729-764. 

Pharmacologic management of thrombosis includes local administration of thrombolytic agents. Alteplase (2 mg per port) and reteplase (0.5 unit per port) are the two most commonly used agents today. Urokinase has been used in the past, but after its reintroduction to the United States market, the larger dosed vial size makes it less cost effective than the newer agents. 

Pharmacologic management of infections should cover the gram-positive organisms that most frequently cause access-related infections. Patients who have positive blood cultures should receive treatment tailored to the organism isolated. Preventive measures for access-related infections include mupirocin at the exit site and povidone-iodine ointment. The recommendations of the NKF for treatment of infections associated with hemodialysis are listed in Table 23-9. 

Snow V, Weiss K, Wall EM, Mottur-Pilson C. Pharmacologic management of acute attacks of migraine and prevention of migraine headache. Ann Intern Med 2002 137 840-849. 

The current gold standard of treatment for cognitive symptoms includes pharmacologic management with a cholinesterase inhibitor and/or an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist. 

Education of the patient and family regarding the benefits and risks of antipsychotic medications and the importance of adherence to their therapeutic regimens must be integrated into pharmacologic management. 

Patients with GAD should be treated to remission of symptoms. While data are lacking on the optimal duration of pharmacotherapy, most guidelines recommend continuing treatment for an additional 3 to 10 months.25-28 An algorithm for the pharmacologic management of GAD is shown in Fig. 37-2. 

Describe the pharmacologic management of patients with acute and chronic adrenal insufficiency. 

Surgical intervention has become an integral therapy in combination with pharmacologic management of IE. Valve replacement is the predominant intervention, and it is used in a minimum of 25% for all cases of IE.1 Surgery may be indicated if the patient has unresolved infection, ineffective antimicrobial therapy (often associated with fungal IE), more... 

What pharmacologic management is necessary during administration of the preparative regimen ... 

Recommend optimal nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic management strategies for patients with oncologic emergencies. 

What pharmacologic management strategy would you recommend to manage this potential extravasation ... 

Schwartz J. R. (2004). Pharmacologic management of daytime sleepiness. J. Clin. Psychiatry 65(Suppl. 16), 46-9. 

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