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2. Clark's rule - Wikipedia

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   The procedure is to take the child's weight in pounds, divide by 150 lb, and multiply the fractional result by the adult dose to find the equivalent child dosage.For example, if an adult dose of medication calls for 30 mg and the child weighs 30 lb, divide the weight by 150 (30/150) to obtain 1/5 and multiply 1/5 times 30 mg to get 6 mg.

3. Promethazine - Wikipedia

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   Promethazine has a variety of medical uses, including: Sedation [13] In Germany, it is approved for the treatment of agitation and agitation associated with underlying psychiatric disorders with a maximum daily dose of 200 mg. [14] For nausea and vomiting associated with anesthesia or chemotherapy. It is commonly used postoperatively as an ...

4. Chlorpromazine - Wikipedia

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   Psychiatrists were reluctant initially, but on 19 January 1952, it was administered (alongside pethidine, pentothal and ECT) to Jacques Lh., a 24-year-old manic patient, who responded dramatically; he was discharged after three weeks, having received 855 mg of the drug in total.

5. Promazine - Wikipedia

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   Promazine (brand name Sparine among others), [2] is used as a short-term add-on treatment for psychomotor agitation. [3] [4] Its approved uses in people is limited, but is used as a tranquilizer in veterinary medicine. [3]

6. Levomepromazine - Wikipedia

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   Levomepromazine, also known as methotrimeprazine, is a phenothiazine neuroleptic drug.Brand names include Nozinan, Levoprome, Detenler, Hirnamin, Levotomin and Neurocil. It is a low-potency antipsychotic (approximately half as potent as chlorpromazine) with strong analgesic, hypnotic and antiemetic properties that are primarily used in palliative care.

7. Acepromazine - Wikipedia

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   Acepromazine, acetopromazine, or acetylpromazine (commonly known as ACP, Ace, or by the trade names Atravet or Acezine 2, number depending on mg/ml dose) is a phenothiazine derivative antipsychotic drug. It was used in humans during the 1950s as an antipsychotic, [4] but is now almost exclusively used on animals as a sedative and antiemetic.

8. Prochlorperazine - Wikipedia

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   Sedation is very common, and extrapyramidal side effects are common and include restlessness, dystonic reactions, pseudoparkinsonism, and akathisia; the extrapyramidal symptoms can affect 2% of people at low doses, whereas higher doses may affect as many as 40% of people.

9. Lean (drug) - Wikipedia

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   Respiratory depression is a potentially serious or fatal adverse drug reaction associated with the use of codeine, but mainly the danger lies in the much more potent and CNS-depressing phenothiazine-related antihistamine promethazine. This depression is dose-related and is the mechanism for the potentially fatal consequences of overdose ...