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KTC-Diazepam
Question | Answer |
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Diazepam's trade name | Valium |
Class | Benzodiazapine, anti-anxiety, hypnotic, anticonvulsant, sedative |
Description | Benzo sedative and muscle relaxant that reduces tremors, induces amnesia, and reduces the recurrence of seizures, acts on limbic, thalamic, and hypothalamic regions to potentate the effects of inhibitory neurotransmitters, raising the seizure threshold |
Indications | major motor seizures, status epilepticus, muscle tremors due to injury, acute anxiety, premedication prior to cardioversion |
Onset/Duration | 1-5 min; 15min-1 hour |
Contraindications | hypersensitivity, coma, shock, depressed vital signs, neonates, shock, acute alcoholism, OB patients |
Adverse Reactions | hypotension, reflex tachycardia, respiratory depression, ataxia, psychomotor impairment, confusion, nausea |
Precautions | Addiction, depression, COPD, myasthenia gravis, elderly or very ill patients, psychoses, hepatic or renal failure, Due to short half-life of the drug, seizures may recur |
Dosage/Route | Seizure 5-10mg IV/IM adult, Pedi 0.5-2mg IV/IM; Acute Anxiety 2-5mg IV/IM; premedication 5-15mg IV, Pedi 0.2-0.5mg/kg IV |