anticholinergic drugs classification n uses Flashcards
Motion sickness
Scopolamine
Parkinson’s disease
Benzhexol, benztropine, procyclidine
Refractory testing, fundoscopic examinations, iritis, to break adhesions between lens and cornea in iridocyclitis (As mydriatic and cycloplegic)
Tropicamide, cyclopentolate, homatropine
Sinus bradycardia, AV block (As cardiac vagolytic)
Atropine
Bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Ipratropium, tiotropium
Preanesthetic medication
Glycopyrrolate, atropine
Peptic ulcer
Pirenzepine, telenzepine
Intestinal colic, renal colic, biliary colic, traveler’s diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome (As antispasmodics)
Dicyclomine
Urinary incontinence, nocturnal enuresis
Flavoxate, oxybutynin
Hyperhidrosis, excessive salivation
Dicyclomine
atropine poisoning
ANTIDOTE:
* Physostigmine (1–4 mg in adults, 0.5–1 mg in children) slow i.v.