ATC Group: B05XA Electrolyte solutions

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.

Position of B05XA in the ATC hierarchy

Level Code Title
1 B Blood and blood forming organs
2 B05 Blood substitutes and perfusion solutions
3 B05X I.V. solution additives
4 B05XA Electrolyte solutions

Group B05XA contents

Code Title
B05XA01 Potassium chloride
B05XA02 Sodium bicarbonate
B05XA03 Sodium chloride
B05XA04 Ammonium chloride
B05XA05 Magnesium sulfate
B05XA06 Potassium phosphate, incl. comb. with other potassium salts
B05XA07 Calcium chloride
B05XA08 Sodium acetate
B05XA09 Sodium phosphate
B05XA10 Magnesium phosphate
B05XA11 Magnesium chloride
B05XA12 Zinc chloride
B05XA13 Hydrochloric acid
B05XA14 Sodium glycerophosphate
B05XA15 Potassium lactate
B05XA16 Cardioplegia solutions
B05XA17
B05XA18
B05XA19
B05XA20
B05XA30 Combinations of electrolytes
B05XA31 Electrolytes in combination with other drugs

Active ingredients in B05XA

Active Ingredient Description
Ammonium chloride
Calcium chloride

Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body, and is an essential body electrolyte. Homeostasis is mainly regulated by the parathyroid hormone, by calcitonin, and by the activated form of vitamin D. Calcium is a structural component of bones and teeth. It is also required for blood clotting, neurotransmitter release, muscle contraction and normal heartbeat.

Calcium gluconate

Calcium gluconate is the gluconate salt of calcium. An element or mineral necessary for normal nerve, muscle, and cardiac function, calcium as the gluconate salt helps to maintain calcium balance and prevent bone loss when taken orally.

Hydrochloric acid
Magnesium chloride
Magnesium phosphate
Magnesium sulfate

Magnesium sulfate is a saline purgative. It can be employed locally in various inflammatory conditions, due to its osmotic action.

Potassium acetate
Potassium chloride

Potassium plays a vital physiological role in maintenance of normal electrical excitability of nerve and muscle. It is also important in the genesis and correction of imbalances of acid-base metabolism.

Potassium phosphate

Potassium is the principle cation in intracellular fluid. It is involved with carbohydrate metabolism, glycogen storage and protein synthesis. It is involved with transmembrane potential and profound effects on muscle. Phosphorus has many important biochemical functions in the body and is involved in many significant metabolic and enzyme reactions in almost all organs and tissues.

Sodium acetate
Sodium bicarbonate

Sodium bicarbonate has antacid properties. Sodium bicarbonate causes neutralisation of gastric acid with the production of carbon dioxide.

Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride is the principle salt involved in maintaining the osmotic tension of blood and tissues. Changes in osmotic tension influence the movement of fluids and diffusion of salts in cellular tissue.

Sodium glycerophosphate
Sodium phosphate
Sodium selenite

Selenium is an essential trace element. In human, selenium compounds are glutathione peroxidase and a selenium protein P found in the plasma. Deficiency of selenium has been associated with an endemic form of cardiomyopathy, Keshan disease and with Kaschin-Beck disease, an endemic osteoarthropathy which causes a severe deformity of the joints.

Zinc chloride

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