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.
Rectal solution - 5 mg/2.5 ml
Film coated tablets - 10 mg
Solution for injection - (0.1%) 1 mg/1 ml
Tablets - 0.25 mg
Solution for injection - (40 mg + 0.02 ml)/2 ml
