Therapeutic Uses and Side Effects of Atropine, Adrenaline, and Beta Blockers
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Therapeutic Uses of Atropine
Preanesthetic Medication
- Decrease salivary and bronchial secretions
- Prevent bronchospasm
- Antagonize respiratory center depressants
- Protect the heart from bradycardia induced by some general anesthetics
- Prevent vomiting
Disadvantages:
- Post-operative urine retention
- Intestinal hypomotility (paralytic ileus)
Other Uses
- Heart block and marked bradycardia
- In cholinergic poisoning to antagonize muscarinic effects (organophosphorus poisoning or physostigmine poisoning)
- Colics, gut hypermotility, duodenal ulcer
- Nocturnal enuresis and urinary urgency to reduce bladder motility
- Parkinsonism
- Motion sickness (Hyoscine (scopolamine) is better)
- Hyperhidrosis
- For fundus examination of the eye (derivatives are better)
- Bronchial asthma (secretions