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These painkillers are given by injection into your thigh, usually combined with an anti-sickness medicine, as they may otherwise make you feel sick. Pethidine and other injected opiates ...
It is often used as a supplement to pethidine. The main advantages are that it is under the patient's control, it takes effect within seconds and wears off quickly with no side-effe...
Beware that patients can present with a fictitious story suggestive of renal colic as a ruse to obtain an injection of pethidine. The patient will usually be insistent that only pethidine...
Drug misuse : there are reports of people with fictitious stories of renal colic, designed to obtain an injection of pethidine. These patients tend to be abusive when offered anything other t...
Examples of strong opioids include morphine , buprenorphine, oxycodone , pethidine and tramadol . Many people who need strong opioids are in hospital. Different types of painki...
Medicines which are injected or infused into a vein, such as paracetamol (again) or pethidine. Sometimes you will be able to control your own pain medication using a 'patient demand' ...
Relieving anxiety and sedation may also be achieved by opioids such as morphine, pethidine and fentanyl. Analgesia Analgesic drugs given pre-emptively reduce the required dose of a...
Strong pain-relieving drugs such as morphine, pethidine or codeine may be given. You can get more information about pain relief from : The pre-assessment clinic.
Strong opioids - these include tramadol , buprenorphine , methadone , diamorphine , fentanyl , hydromorphone , morphine , oxycodone , and pethidine . Even though the strong op...
You have been given an opiate medicine such as pethidine and are drowsy. What is giving birth in water like? The warm water and relaxed environment of a birthing pool help to ease la...
Opiate poisoning can occur at any time from birth (when pethidine given to the mother in labour may suppress ventilation) to terminal care. The outcome can range from minor adverse effects su...
Analgesics: tramadol, pethidine, fentanyl, dextromethorphan (in OTC cough remedies). Antiemetics: odansetron, metoclopramide.
They include amfetamines, cocaine, dihydrocodeine , heroin, methadone , morphine , opium in medicinal form, pethidine and methylphenidate hydrochloride (Ritalin®) . These have to b...
They should be used with caution if essential but are best avoided: Drugs that can exacerbate myasthenia gravis Drug group Examples Antibiotics Amin...
Non-surgical Biliary colic and acute cholecystitis - these are conditions which will usually respond to an opioid such as morphine or pethidine given parenterally and/or diclofenac by...
Schedule 2 (controlled drugs) Includes diamorphine (heroin), morphine, remifentanil, pethidine, secobarbital, glutethimide, amphetamine, and cocaine. Are subject to safe custody requ...
It is only partially reversed by naloxone. Pethidine produces a faster onset but shorter duration of action than morphine. It is therefore not suitable for chronic cancer pain.