3rd, October 2007, 09:32 AM
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| King Amongst Members | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Yorkshire, by 'eck
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 Re: Digoxin
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Originally Posted by Jeff  Biological half-life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"So, for example, digoxin has a half-life (or t½) of 24-36 hours; this means that a change in the dose will take the best part of a week to take full effect"
However I can't see a reason for taking digoxin 125mcg QD rather than 500mcg as a daily dose - but that's just intuition - I haven't gone through the maths.
Is the intention to reach a steady state or to establish a clinical effective more quickly and then reduce the dose?
Jeff | Is QD the same as OD as written here in UK?
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