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Midazolam (Versed)

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Name/Class: MIDAZOLAM (Versed)/Sedative

Description: Midazolam is a short-acting benzodiazepine with CNS depressant, muscle relaxant, anticonvulsant, and anterograde amnestic effects.

Indications: To induce sedation before cardioversion or intubation, Seizures

Contraindications: Hypersensitivity to benzodiazepines, narrow-angle glaucoma, shock, coma, or acute alcohol intoxication.

Precautions: COPD, renal impairment, CHF, elderly.

Dosage/Route: 1 to 5 mg slow IV/IM; 3 mg intranasal;

Pedi: 0.05 to 0.2 mg/kg IV: 0.1 to 0.15 mg/kg IM;.

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