Word Finder - diazepam

definition

A tranquilizing muscle relaxant drug (trademark Valium) used chiefly to relieve anxiety.

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2001: The most effective anti-anxiety drugs (tranquillizers) are the benzodiazepines, epitomized by diazepam (Valium®). — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 57)

There is no indication for prescribing two benzodiazepines rather than diazepam alone.

No other member of Mrs X's household had been prescribed diazepam.

Throughout his childhood he was prescribed sedating medications, including diazepam (Valium ).

I found him almost out for the count having taken diazepam.

What & how to use - Use only diazepam - Maintenance vs reduction - reducing more Any advantages with maintenance?

A history of all your friends administer diazepam to control Board 2003.

T raining is needed to be able to give rectal diazepam.

Frequent or prolonged convulsions should be treated with intravenous diazepam.

Particular medicines can make.g.RD worse by relaxing the sphincter, e.g. diazepam.

On the basis of the results the authors recommended starting oral diazepam at the first sign of illness.

For example, if you are taking lorazepam 1mg three times daily, first change the night dose to 10mg diazepam.

Epilepsy in your queue of no eagerly nodded available Valium diazepam.

Benzodiazepines, Eg diazepam, may decrease the therapeutic effects of this medicine.

The drug diazepam (given directly into a vein) can control the muscle spasms.

Stesolid is the usual rectal formulation consisting of a 2.5 ml rectal tube containing 5 mg or 10 mg diazepam.

At all times be gentle and consider using sedation such as low dose diazepam and/or morphine to help you.

Do you drink or use any narcotics (alcohol and narcotics may alter the response to diazepam )?

For example, elderly people are particularly susceptible to the side effects of opioid painkillers such as morphine and sleeping tablets such as diazepam.

Maybe I'll slip some diazepam into the turkey baster next year.

In that bunch of prescriptions was one for diazepam (commonly known as Valium), which, in the past, Haim had admitted to taking nearly 100 of this anti-anxiety drug in one day.

This includes the drugs diazepam and clonazepam.

Benzodiazepines, such as diazepam (Valium), clonazepam (Klonopin, Rivotril), and lorazepam (Ativan) reduce spasticity by acting on the central nervous system.

Before fixed contractures develop, muscle-relaxant drugs such as diazepam (Valium), dantrolene (Dantrium), and baclofen (Lioresal) may be prescribed.

Phenothiazines can be used to counter nausea, vomiting, and anxiety, and chloral hydrate or diazepam is useful for sedation or to induce sleep.

A number of medications are available to treat the involuntary movements of chorea, including diazepam for mild cases and haloperidol for more severe cases.

Clonazepam, clorazepate, and diazepam are members of the benzodiazepine group of drugs and are best known for their use as tranquilizers.

Cimetidine (Tagamet) increases the effects of diazepam, clonazepam, and clorazepate.

If the patient becomes violent inside the hospital, he or she may be placed in restraints or given a tranquilizer (usually either lorazepam [Ativan] or diazepam [Valium]), most often by injection.

Vestibular nystagmus can be treated by diazepam or scopolamine.

In some severe cases, a pediatrician may prescribe a benzodiazepine tranquilizer, such as diazepam, known to suppress the stage four level of deep sleep.