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Am J Emerg Med
January 2025
Pharmacy Department, Wesley Medical Center, 550 N Hillside St, Wichita, KS 67214, United States of America.
Introduction: Droperidol is a dopamine-2 receptor antagonist in the class of butyrophenone antipsychotics with antiemetic, sedative, analgesic, and anxiolytic properties. In the postoperative setting, droperidol provides an opioid sparing effect and decreases nausea/vomiting. Another butyrophenone antipsychotic, haloperidol, has been shown to reduce morphine milliequivalents (MME) administered when used for abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Emerg Med
March 2023
Department of Emergency Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Department of Emergency Medicine, Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. Electronic address:
Background: Droperidol is a butyrophenone, with antiemetic, sedative, anxiolytic, and analgesic properties. Although droperidol was once widely used in both emergency and perioperative settings, use of the medication declined rapidly after a 2001 U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Adv Pharm Technol Res
November 2022
Department of Prosthodontics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
N20 omission or addition to the combination of an opioid and neuroleptic is referred to as neuroleptanalgesia and neuroleptanesthesia, respectively. Conscious sedation is the result of this evolution. The requirement for high-quality anesthesia that is also related with speedier recovery, improved comfort, and lower costs all support the concept of neuroleptanesthesia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Equine Vet Sci
March 2020
Veterinary Medicine Department, Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Pirassununga, SP, Brazil.
The aim of this study was to compare the effects of methadone combined with detomidine or acepromazine on the quality of sedation and its influence over dissociative anesthesia in healthy horses. In a crossover design, seven horses were administered with 0.1 mg/kg methadone and 0.
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