Terms Related to Tocolytic Agents

• Tocolytic Therapy

  Any drug treatment modality designed to inhibit uterine contractions in pregnant women at risk for preterm labor.

• Anti-Hypertensive Agents

  Drugs used in the treatment of acute or chronic hypertension regardless of pharmacological mechanism. Among the antihypertensive agents are DIURETICS (especially DIURETICS, THIAZIDE), ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ...

• Sympatholytic Agents

  Drugs that inhibit the actions of the sympathetic nervous system by any mechanism. The most common of these are the ADRENERGIC ANTAGONISTS and drugs that ...

• Tocolysis

  Any drug treatment modality designed to inhibit uterine contractions in pregnant women at risk for preterm labor.

• Uterine Monitoring

  Measurement or recording of contraction activity of the uterine muscle. It is used to determine progress of labor and assess status of pregnancy. It is ...

• Adrenergic Synthesis Inhibitors

  Drugs that act on adrenergic receptors or affect the life cycle of adrenergic transmitters. Included here are adrenergic agonists and antagonists and agents that affect ...

• Calcium Channel Blocking Drugs

  A class of drugs that act by selective inhibition of calcium influx through cell membranes or on the release and binding of calcium in intracellular ...