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Kennedy, S.K. and Longnecker, D.E., History and Principles of Anesthesiology In, Goodman and Gillman's The Pharmacologial Basis of Therapeutics,(Hardman, J.G, Limbird, L.E,Molinoff, P.B., Ruddon, R.W, and Gilman, A.G.,eds) TheMcGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.,1996, p 324.

 

Preanesthetic Medication: Rationale

Shannon, M.T., Wilson, B.A., Stang, C. L. In, Govoni and Hayes 8th Edition: Drugs and Nursing Implications Appleton & Lange, 1995, pp 794-795; Kennedy, S.K. and Longnecker, D.E., History and Principles of Anesthesiology In, Goodman and Gillman's The Pharmacologial Basis of Therapeutics,(Hardman, J.G, Limbird, L.E, Molinoff, P.B., Ruddon, R.W, and Gilman, A.G.,eds) TheMcGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.,1996, p 304.]; Barash, P.G., Cullen, B.F, Stoelting, R.K. In, Handbook of Clinical Anesthesia (Third Edition), Lippincott-Raven, 1997, p.267, 639

Shannon, M.T., Wilson, B.A., Stang, C. L. In, Govoni and Hayes 8th Edition: Drugs and Nursing Implications Appleton & Lange, 1995, pp 726-727

Shannon, M.T., Wilson, B.A., Stang, C. L. In, Govoni and Hayes 8th Edition: Drugs and Nursing Implications Appleton & Lange, 1995, pp 515-516

Anticholinergic Drugs-- Contraindications (partial listing)

  • Glaucoma;

  • Asthma,

  • Prostatic hypertrophy,

  • GI hypomotility

  • Myasthenia gravis

  • Safe use in pregnancy not established (Category B);

  •  Tachycardia,

  •  Severe ulcerative colitis;

  •  Obstructive uropathy.

 

 

Cautious Use

  •  Autonomic neuropathy, Hepatic/renal disease

 

Moyers, J.R., Preoperative Medication, Chapter 21, In: Clinical Anesthesia 3rd edition, (Barash, P.G., Cullen, B.F. and Stoelting, R.K., eds) Lippincott-Ravin, Philadelphia, New York, 1997, pp. 519-529

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