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For prescribing by certain health practitioners Clinical criteria: Treatment criteria: Must be treated by a health practitioner who is any of: (i) a medical practitioner, (ii) a nurse practitioner who is continuing treatment with this medicine (of any strength) that was initiated by a medical practitioner as a PBS benefit.
“Fludrocortisone acetate is a synthetic adrenocortical steroid possessing very potent mineralocorticoid properties and high glucocorticoid activity.”
“The approximate half-life of fludrocortisone is 18-36 hours.”
“Co-treatment with CYP3A inhibitors, including cobicistat-containing products, is expected to increase the risk of systemic side-effects.”
Working under the parallel aged-care framework? Aged-care equivalent →
Curated subset. The full adverse-effect list is in the TGA Product Information; click any citation above to open it.