GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Premedication and
Anesthesia
Premedication is the prescribing of drugs to be administered
preoperatively. These are usually agents prescribed by the anesthetist, at the
preoperative visit.
• To reduce anxiety
• To relieve pain
• To dry saliva.
Morphine Sulphate
• Morphine is a narcotic
analgesic
• It depresses awareness,
anxiety, pain.
It is used :
• As a premedicant.
Diazepam
• This is a minor
tranquilizer
• It relieves tension
and anxiety
• It is used mainly as a
premedicant.
Antisialgogue
• These produce drying of
the salivary and respiratory secre-tion
• The drugs include
atropine sulphate, glycopyrrolate and hyoscine
• One of them is used as
a premedicant drug along with analgesics.
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