The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.
Level | Code | Title | |
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1 | D | Dermatologicals | |
2 | D04 | Antipruritics, incl. antihistamines, anesthetics, etc. | |
3 | D04A | Antipruritics, incl. antihistamines, anesthetics, etc. | |
4 | D04AB | Anesthetics for topical use |
Code | Title | |
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D04AB01 | Lidocaine | |
D04AB02 | Cinchocaine | |
D04AB03 | Oxybuprocaine | |
D04AB04 | Benzocaine | |
D04AB05 | Quinisocaine | |
D04AB06 | Tetracaine | |
D04AB07 | Pramocaine |
Active Ingredient | Description | |
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Benzocaine |
Benzocaine is a local anaesthetic of the ester type, acting to produce reversible loss of sensation by preventing or diminishing the generation and transmission of sensory nerve impulses near the site of application. Depolarisation of the neuronal membrane and ion exchange are reversibly inhibited. |
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Cinchocaine |
Cinchocaine is a local anaesthetic agent and is suitable for surface or spinal anaesthesia and for relaxing sphincteric spasms. It is an anaesthetic of the amide type. It is more toxic than cocaine by local application but its local anaesthetic action is greater so it can be used in lower concentrations. Its action is more prolonged than lignocaine. |
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Lidocaine |
Lidocaine, like other local anaesthetics, causes a reversible blockade of impulse propagation along nerve fibres by preventing the inward movement of sodium ions through the nerve membrane. Local anaesthetics of the amide-type are thought to act within the sodium channels of the nerve membrane. |
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Oxybuprocaine |
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Pramocaine |
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Quinisocaine |
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Tetracaine |
Tetracaine is a local anaesthetic and is believed to act by blocking nerve conduction mainly by inhibiting sodium ion flux across the axon membrane. |
Title | Information Source | Document Type | |
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AMETOP 4% w/w Gel | Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB) | MPI, EU: SmPC | |
LANACANE Creme | Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB) | MPI, EU: SmPC | |
LMX4 Cream | Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB) | MPI, EU: SmPC | |
STUD 100 | Marketing Authorisation Holder | MPI, EU: SmPC |