Comments on: Diuretic therapy http://www.medrants.com/archives/3457 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: amy http://www.medrants.com/archives/3457/comment-page-1#comment-517684 amy Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:57:45 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3457#comment-517684 Another good way is to go by weight. Each CHF patient has an ideal weight. I tell them to cut the diuretic dose below a certain weight and go up at a certain weight. Another good way is to go by weight. Each CHF patient has an ideal weight. I tell them to cut the diuretic dose below a certain weight and go up at a certain weight.

]]> By: Steve Lucas http://www.medrants.com/archives/3457/comment-page-1#comment-517676 Steve Lucas Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:51:47 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3457#comment-517676 A Jan. 28th WSJ Health Blog piece highlights how diuretics are also as effective in treating high blood pressure as some newer branded drugs. Cheap, effective and with known side effects, it is always interesting when a doctor prescribes a branded drug, which does not have the desired effect, adds a diuretic, which does bring down a person's bp, and then sings the praises of the branded drug. Of course the branded drug rep does bring lunch, pens, clipboards, clocks, ...... Steve Lucas A Jan. 28th WSJ Health Blog piece highlights how diuretics are also as effective in treating high blood pressure as some newer branded drugs. Cheap, effective and with known side effects, it is always interesting when a doctor prescribes a branded drug, which does not have the desired effect, adds a diuretic, which does bring down a person’s bp, and then sings the praises of the branded drug.

Of course the branded drug rep does bring lunch, pens, clipboards, clocks, ……

Steve Lucas

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