Loop Diuretics
Drug Safety Update
February 2016: Co-prescribing an ACE inhibitor or Angiotensin-II receptor antagonists with potassium sparing diuretics - risk of fatal hyperkalaemia
NICE Guidance
NG106: Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management
Furosemide and bumetanide are clinically similar. Furosemide 40mg is approximately equivalent to bumetanide 1mg. At higher bumetanide doses this ratio falls.
Bumetanide may be useful in patients with oedematous gut and those unresponsive to furosemide.
A Thiazide diuretic may be co-prescribed with a loop diuretic in the treatment of resistant oedema
Furosemide 50mg/5ml oral solution is the preferred strength for use in paediatrics
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| 250 tablet |
| 28 tablet |
| 500 tablet |
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| 1000 tablet |
| 250 tablet |
| 28 tablet |
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| 1 ml |
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| 150 ml |
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| 150 ml |
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| 10 ampoule |
| 5 ampoule |
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| 10 ampoule |
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| 10 ampoule (2 x 5 x 25ml ampoules) |
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| 28 tablet |
| 100 tablet |
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| 28 tablet |
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| 28 tablet |
| 30 tablet |
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| 150 ml |
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| 5 ampoule |
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| 28 tablet |
| 56 tablet |
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| 100 tablet |
| 28 tablet |
| 500 tablet |
| 56 tablet |
- On Formulary Preferred
- On Formulary Second Line
- On Formulary Third Line
- Specialist Initiation
- Secondary Care Only
- Not Approved for Formulary