IV infusion: Emergency treatment of collapse & in the restoration & keeping of arterial BP. Local gastric irrigation: For digestive haemorrhage, in addition to the usual treatments.
Not to be used in hypotensive patients in whom circulatory collapse is associated w/ hypovolaemia except as an emergency measure to maintain supply to the coronary & cerebral arteries until blood vol replacement therapy can be instituted. Major left ventricular dysfunction, acute coronary insufficiency, recent MI, heart rhythm disorders arriving during treatment. Continuously check arterial BP & heart rate during infusion. Must be administered separately w/ total blood or blood plasma.
Anxiety, difficulty in breathing, headaches, tremors. Skin necrosis (in the event of extravasation); retrosternal or pharyngeal pain, photophobia, pallor, sweating, vomiting, tachycardia, bradycardia.
C01CA03 - norepinephrine ; Belongs to the class of adrenergic and dopaminergic cardiac stimulants excluding glycosides. Used in the treatment of hypotension.
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