Explore: Premedication

Premedication is using medication before some other therapy (usually surgery or chemotherapy) to prepare for that forthcoming therapy. Typical examples

quality or safety of the anaesthetic or simply provide anxiolysis. Premedication also often has mild sedative effects and may reduce the amount of anaesthetic

and potential esophageal rupture if the patient is actively vomiting. Premedication is used to reduce anxiety of those who are going to be intubated and

Versed among others, is a benzodiazepine medication used for anesthesia, premedication before surgical anesthesia, and procedural sedation, and to treat severe

such as psychiatric schizophrenia and anxiety. It can be used as a premedication before surgery as it augments the effects of anesthetics. Recently,[when

ability to reduce agitation and anxiety, makes lorazepam useful as premedication. It is given before a general anesthetic to reduce the amount of anesthetic

chemotherapy, not premedication, whereas things like anesthetics or prophylactic antibiotics before dental surgery are called premedication.[citation needed]

best in conjunction with behavioural (non-pharmacological) techniques. Premedication refers to medication given prior to initiation of dental treatment.

Nishikawa T, Toyooka H (February 2000). "Effects of oral clonidine premedication on side effects of intravenous ketamine anesthesia: a randomized, double-blind

unconsciousness. In horses, the drug's biological half-life is 77 minutes. Premedication with xylazine (1.1 mg/kg) can reduce the dose required from 163 mg/kg