DRUG DRUG INDICATION MODE OF COMMON ADVERSE TOXICITY ANTIDOTE NURSING

CLASS ACTION/ DOSAGE/FORM/ EFFECT LEVEL AND RESPONSIBILITY

PHARMACOKI ROUTE/TIMING SIGNS AND
NETICS SYMPTOMS
Generic General A: Readily and CNS: blui Flumazenil Before
Name Antiepileptic, Indications completely Minimum Dose Transient, - Discuss risk of fetal
sh-colored
Diazepam Anxiolytic, - Short-term absorbed from 2mg/day mild abnormalities with patients
Skeletal management of the GI tract, drowsiness lips and desiring to become pregnant.
Brand muscle anxiety peak plasma Maximum Dose initially; finger nails - Instruct about side effects
Name relaxant - Insomnia concentrations 60mg/day sedation, of drug: Drowsiness,
Blur
Valium associated with after 30-90 depression, dizziness, GI upset, dreams,
anxiety min (oral). Contents lethargy, red vision difficulty concentrating,
- Sleepwalking Rapidly Diazepam apathy, Bre fatigue, nervousness, crying.
- Night terrors absorbed, peak fatigue, - Assess for hypersensitivity.
athing is
- Premedication plasma Availability and disorientation - Reduce dose of opioid
before concentrations color , slow, labored analgesics with IV diazepam;
anaesthesia after 10-30 - Tablets-2, 5, 10 restlessness, , or stopped dose should be reduced by at
- Adjunct in the min (rectal). mg confusion, least one-third or eliminated.
Con
management of D: Readily - Oral solution- delirium, - Instruct not to stop taking
seizures crosses the 1mg/mL, 5mg/mL headache, fusion the drug without consulting
- Muscle spasms blood-brain - Rectal pediatric slurred Dep the health care provider.
- Acute barrier; gel- 2.5, 5, 10mg speech, ression - Observe the 15 rights of
symptoms of redistributed - Injection- dysarthria, drug administration.
Diz
alcohol into fat depots 5mg/mL stupor,
withdrawal and tissues. rigidity, ziness During
- Premedication Protein- Routes of tremor, mild Dou - Do not administer
before binding: 98- administration paradoxical intrarterially; may produce
ble vision
anaesthesia 99%. Oral excitatory arteriospasm, gangrene.
M: Extensively Intramuscular reactions, Dro - Carefully monitor P. BP,
hepatic; Intravenous extrapyramid wsiness respiration during IV
converted to Rectal al symptoms, administration.
Exci
desmethyldiaz visual and - Change from IV therapy to
epam, auditory tability oral therapy as soon as
oxazepam and disturbances Hic possible.
temazepam. CV: - Do not use small veins for
cups
E: Urine (as Bradycardia, IV injection.
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free or tachycardia, - Instruct to take drug
conjugated CV collapse, k of exactly as prescribed.
metabolites) hypertension alertness
and After
(stupor)
hypotension, - Maintain patients receiving
edema Rapi parenteral benzodiazepines in
GI: d side-to- bed for 3 hours.
Constipation, - Do not permit ambulatory
side
diarrhea, dry patients to operate a vehicle
mouth, movement of following an injection.
salivation, the eyes - Instruct patient to report
nausea, adverse reactions.
Ras
anorexia, - Monitor EEG in patients
vomiting, h treated for status
difficulty in Sto epilepticus, seizures may