Dorzolamide - Glaucoma / ocular hypertension
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Status 1
- Eye drops
Status 2
- Eye drops (preservative free)
Preservative free dorzolamide 20mg/ml - more cost effective if prescribed as a 10ml bottle.
Reserve the use of unit dose formulations for patients for whom a bottle is not suitable.
Documentation
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PAD Profile
Prescribe generically. Initiation by specialist team before any request is made to transfer prescribing to primary care
Committee Recommendations (2)
The Surrey Heartlands Area Prescribing Committee agreed the traffic light status of this drug and indication as part of the Joint Formulary review.
Primary care prescribers do not have the necessary equipment or skills to perform ocular pressure readings to make a diagnosis. The APC recomments that this product, when used for treatment of glaucoma, should be considered as BLUE.
Note; the branded product (Trusopt) was considered BLACK at the PCN in May 2017.
Other Indications
Below are listed other indications that Dorzolamide is used to treat.
- No records returned.
Other Drugs
Below are listed other drugs that are used to treat Glaucoma / ocular hypertension.
- Acetazolamide
- Apraclonidine
- Betaxolol
- Bimatoprost
- Bimatoprost with timolol
- Brimonidine tartrate
- Brimonidine with timolol
- Brinzolamide
- Brinzolamide with brimonidine
- Brinzolamide with timolol
- Dorzolamide with timolol
- Latanoprost
- Latanoprost with netarsudil
- Latanoprost with timolol
- Levobunolol hydrochloride
- Pilocarpine hydrochloride
- Tafluprost
- Timolol
- Travoprost
- Travoprost with timolol