ANESTHESIA 4 Premedication

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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