Solution for injection - (2.5%) 50 mg/2 ml

Chlorpromazine is the first antipsychotic in practice that represents the aliphatic phenothiazines. It has a wide range of activity arising from its depressant actions on the CNS and its alpha-adrenergic blocking and some weak antimuscarinic activities.

Chlorpromazine sugar - coated tablet and solution for injection is used:

- in acute and chronic schizophrenia in adults and children;

- to reduce acute mania, as in bipolar disorder;

- in the control of agitated, or violent behavior in adults and children and sometimes other psychiatric conditions;

- in autistic children;

- as an adjunct for the short-term treatment of severe anxiety, and to reduce pre-operative anxiety in adults and children;

- as an antiemetic in some forms of nausea and vomiting in adults and children; it is ineffective in motion sickness;

- in the alleviation of intractable hiccup;

- as an adjunct in the treatment of tetanus in adults and children and to control symptoms in acute intermittent porphyria;

- for induction of hypothermia;

- in surgery - preparation for anesthesia, prophylaxis and treatment of states of shock;

- in obstetrics - obstetric analgesia, eclampsia.

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