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Dopram Prescribing Information: Indications & Dosage

DOPRAM (doxapram hydrochloride) Structural Formula Illustration

Postanesthesia

  1. When the possibility of airway obstruction and/or hypoxia have been eliminated, doxapram may be used to stimulate respiration in patients with drug-induced postanesthesia respiratory depression or apnea other than that due to muscle relaxant drugs.
  2. To pharmacologically stimulate deep breathing in the postoperative patient. (A quantitative method of assessing oxygenation, such as pulse oximetry, is recommended.)

Drug-Induced Central Nervous System Depression

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