2021 AMH Book or Online available now

We are constantly improving and updating the AMH. Here are some examples of the recent changes that may interest you:

  • new monographs, eg semaglutide for type 2 diabetes, tafenoquine for malaria
  • new class for migraine prevention, calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonists, including new monographs for fremanezumab and galcanezumab
  • revised therapeutic information, eg for asthma, bipolar disorder
  • updated safety information, eg VTE with tofacitinib
  • more combination products now have separate monographs, eg empagliflozin with metformin.

There is a summary of key changes, including all new and deleted drugs, in every edition.

In AMH online, our useful tables now appear within the relevant pages (no need to click!), eg tables comparing lipid-lowering drugs, or combined oral contraceptives.

AMH Aged Care Companion - April 2020 release

The AMH Aged Care Companion is our trusted, practical reference for health care professionals who work with older people.

The selected topics included in this companion reflect some of the most common illnesses and problems requiring drug treatment that confront the aged.

With every update, there are many changes to ensure the information remains current and relevant to the use of medicines in older people.

Changes in the April 2020 release that may be of interest include:

  • updated topics including behavioural & psychological symptoms of dementia, epilepsy, immunisation, nursing home-acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infections
  • a new appendix outlining medication issues for older people during extreme hot weather
  • updated table for hypertension following the discontinuation of oxprenolol
  • prescribing in renal impairment guide updated
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AMH Children’s Dosing Companion – Jan 2021 Online release

The January 2021 online release of the AMH’s Children’s Dosing Companion (CDC) includes new monographs for:

  • rivaroxaban, the first of the direct oral anticoagulants included in the CDC
  • esmolol, an intravenous beta-blocker, as well as carvedilol
  • two new anti-infectives: peramivir, a new intravenous drug for the treatment of influenza, and the antifungal, anidulafungin
  • two new antihistamine-corticosteroid nasal sprays for allergic rhinitis: azelastine with fluticasone and olopatadine with mometasone.

All of the drugs used in the treatment and prevention of asthma have been reviewed and updated in line with the latest Australian Asthma Handbook (Version 2.1). In particular, the use of budesonide with formoterol solely as symptom relief in adolescents with mild asthma has been included in that drug’s monograph; this ‘as-needed’ dose is one of the biggest changes to asthma practice in recent times.

The first medicinal cannabis product has now been registered in Australia to treat rare paediatric epilepsies, and we have reviewed the information provided about cannabidiol in the CDC against the approved product information for this product.

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