As analgesic. Preanaesthetic medication. Balanced anaesthesia and surgical analgesia. Acute left ventricular failure (cardiac asthma).
Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?
Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient Infants and the elderly. Respiratory insufficiency. Bronchial asthma. Head injury. Hypotensive states. Undiagnosed acute abdominal pain.
Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication
Hypothyroidism, liver and kidney disease. Unstable personalities. Pregnancy and lactation.
What are possible side effects of this medication ?
Sedation, mental clouding, lethargy, vomiting, constipation, respiratory depression, blurring of vision, urinary retention, BP may fall.