Nifedipine

Procardia · DHP CCB

Generic
nifedipine
Brand
Procardia
Class
DHP CCB
Say it
nye-FED-i-peen

What technicians need to know

ER for chronic HTN only

Commonly mispronounced

"nih-FEH-dih-peen"

The -dipine pattern

Nifedipine ends in -dipine, which marks a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker — used for blood pressure. Learning the suffix families turns roughly 200 separate drugs into about 20 patterns you can reason from. See all the families.

Other dhp ccbs

amlodipine

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