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Table 5 Most commonly prescribed off-label drugs

From: Medication use in the neonatal intensive care unit in a tertiary hospital in China from 2020 to 2023

Classification of pharmacology

Types

Drugs

Vitamins, water and electrolyte balance nutritional drugs

6(23%)

Vitamin B, vitamin C, a variety of trace elements, compound amino acids (18AA), fat-soluble vitamins

Injection II, Multiple trace elements injection (II)

Blood hematopoietic system medications

3(13%)

Protamine, heparin sodium, recombinant human erythropoietin

Cardiovascular Medications

3(23%)

Dopamine injection, fructose sodium diphosphate oral solution, cytidine diphosphate choline injection

Anti-infective medications

2(11.76%)

Cefaclor, Meropenem

Central nervous system medications

2(18.18%)

Midazolam, chloral hydrate mixture

Autonomic nervous system medications

2(33.33%)

Epinephrine, isoproterenol

Digestive System Medications

1(25%)

Montmorillonite powder, Somatostatin

Antipyretic and analgesic medications

1(50%)

Zhihuang granule*

  1. * Zhihuang granules are obtained from “Yinchenhao Decoction”, which consists of four herb extracts: Artemisia capillaris Thunb. (Artemisiae scopariae herba, Yinchen), Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis (Gardeniae fructus, Zhizi), Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi (Scutellariae radix, Huangqin) and Lonicera japonica Thunb. (Lonicerae japonicae flos, Jinyinhua)