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Premedication is
using medication before some
other therapy (usually
surgery or chemotherapy) to
prepare for that
forthcoming therapy.
Typical examples...
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quality or
safety of the
anaesthetic or
simply provide anxiolysis.
Premedication also
often has mild
sedative effects and may
reduce the
amount of anaesthetic...
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potential esophageal rupture if the
patient is
actively vomiting.
Premedication is used to
reduce anxiety of
those who are
going to be
intubated and...
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Versed among others, is a
benzodiazepine medication used for anesthesia,
premedication before surgical anesthesia, and
procedural sedation, and to
treat severe...
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ability to
reduce agitation and anxiety,
makes lorazepam useful as
premedication. It is
given before a
general anesthetic to
reduce the
amount of anesthetic...
- such as
psychiatric schizophrenia and anxiety. It can be used as a
premedication before surgery as it
augments the
effects of anesthetics. Recently,[when...
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Nishikawa T,
Toyooka H (February 2000). "Effects of oral
clonidine premedication on side
effects of
intravenous ketamine anesthesia: a randomized, double-blind...
- unconsciousness. In horses, the drug's
biological half-life is 77 minutes.
Premedication with
xylazine (1.1 mg/kg) can
reduce the dose
required from 163 mg/kg...
- chemotherapy, not
premedication,
whereas things like
anesthetics or
prophylactic antibiotics before dental surgery are
called premedication. Step therapy...
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premedication are
often violent with the
horse having multiple failures to stand,
resulting in
trauma to itself.
Xylazine is a
superior premedication...
