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Sedatives/tranquillizers benzodiazepines diazepam

The tranquillizers like benzodiazepines (diazepam 5-10 mg oral, or lorazepam 2 to 4 mg IM, IV are now preferred for preanaesthetic medication because they produce tranquillity, have better muscle relaxant property and smoothen induction. Other tranquillizer compounds include phenothiazines which possess sedative, antiemetic and antihistaminic properties. They can be given orally as well as parenterally. [Pg.67]

CifiHijClNj. White plates m.p. 125 C. Diazepam is one of several benzodiazepines which are very widely used as minor tranquillizers for allaying anxiety, as hypnotics or, in sufficiently high dosage given intravenously, as pre-anaesthetic sedatives. [Pg.132]

As already noted, there are drugs found among benzodiazepine derivatives that have expressed anxiolytic action and that lack or have poorly expressed sedative-hypnotic effects, which are called daytime tranquilizers. Medazepam, a representative of the daytime tranquilizers, is a drug that differs from diazepam only in the absence of a carbonyl group in the seven-membered azepine ring. [Pg.77]

Sedatives (also called hypnotics, sedative-hypnotics, minor tranquilizers, antianxiety agents) Secobarbital (barbiturate) Glutethimide (nonbarbiturate hypnotic) Diazepam (benzodiazepine antianxiety agent) Chloral hydrate (miscellaneous hypnotic) alcohol ( substance )... [Pg.63]

OFFICIAL NAMES Minor tranquilizers (sedative-hyp-notics/anxiolytics)/Benzodiazepines Alprazolam (Xanax) chlordiazepoxide (Librium, Novopoxide) clonazepam (Klonopin) clorazepate (Azene, Tranxene) diazepam (Valium) estazolam (ProSom) flunitrazepam (Rohypnol/illegal in the United States) flurazepam (Dalmane) halazepam (Paxipam) lorazepam (Ativan) midazolam (Versed) oxazepam (Serax) prazepam (Centrax) quazepam (Doral) temazepam (Restoril) triazolam (Halcion)... [Pg.462]

Mectlzan - ivermectin, mecysteine methyl cysteine, medazepam [ban, inn. jan] (medazepam hydrochloride [usan]) is one of the [ l,4]benzodiazepines, a BENZODIAZEPINE BINDING-SITE AGONIST, with most of its properties similar to diazepam. It has HYPNOTIC. ANTICONVULSANT and anxiolytic activity, and has been used orally in the treatment of anxiety, medazepam hydrochloride medazepam. medetomidine [ban. inn] (medetomidine hydrochloride [usan]) is an imidazole derivative, a (selective Oj) a-ADRENOCEPTOR AGONIST. It can be used as a veterinary TRANQUILLIZER, SEDATIVE and ANALGESIC. The (/ )-form of medetomidine, the pharmacologically active isomer, is dexmedetomidine. [Pg.173]

Clinically important, potentially hazardous interactions with alcohol, anticholinergics, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, butabarbital, chloral hydrate, chlordiazepoxide, chlorpromazine, clonazepam, clorazepate, diazepam, ethchlorvynol, fluphenazine, flurazepam, hypnotics, lorazepam, MAO inhibitors, mephobarbital, mesoridazine, midazolam, narcotics, oxazepam, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, phenothiazines, phenylbutazone, primidone, prochlorperazine, promethazine, quazepam, secobarbital, sedatives, temazepam, thioridazine, tranquilizers, trifluoperazine, zolpidem... [Pg.119]


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