Challenge: What medication is it?
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
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Challenge: What medication is it?
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A 33 year old G1P0 woman at 33 weeks, 5 days gestation presents with painful regular contractions. Her pregnancy has otherwise been uneventful. Her fetal heart tracing is reassuring. You start her on some betamethasone and give her an oral medication that can cause nausea, flushing, headache, dizziness and palpitations.
Challenge: What medication is it?
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Challenge: What medication is it?
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The calcium channel blocker nifedipine.
yep! nicely done
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Early Bird
This is nifedipine, used for tocolysis of preterm labor.
Sources: UpToDate; Wikipedia.
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