Date: 21/05/2014 17:29:08
From: dv
ID: 534173
Subject: Co-amoxifruse
From a BMJ article summary:
“Co-amoxifruse is the imaginary name of a drug combination often given to breathless older patients. Usually furosemide is given first. This was confirmed in a recent study from Ottawa, where paramedics have a medical directive to administer nitroglycerin and furosemide to any patient thought to have acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema (Emergency Medicine Journal 2014, doi:10.1136/emermed-2013-202874). In fact, a third of patients arriving in hospital after furosemide administration turned out to have a different diagnosis, but the investigators found that nobody seemed to have been harmed, and some may have benefited.”
So what is actually in co-amoxifruse?