OTHER THERAPEUTIC USES

Question 1

For sedative and possible amnestic effects during medical or
surgical proceduressuch asendoscopy and bronchoscopy—as well as for premedication prior to anesthesia—_____________ are preferred.

Answer 1

oral formulations of
shorter-acting drugs

Question 2

Long-acting drugs such as ________________ are administered in progressively
decreasing dosesto patientsduring withdrawal from physiologic
dependence on ethanol or other sedative-hypnotics.

Answer 2

• chlordiazepoxide and diazepam
• and, to a lesser extent, phenobarbital

Question 3

Parenteral
____________ is used to suppress the symptoms of delirium tremens.

Answer 3

lorazepam

Question 4

_________________ have frequently been
used as central muscle relaxants, though evidence for general efficacy
without accompanying sedation is lacking.

Answer 4

Meprobamate and the benzodiazepines

Question 5

A possible exception
is ____________, which has useful relaxant effects in skeletal
muscle spasticity of central origin (see Chapter 27 ).
Psychiatric uses of benzodiazepines other than treatment of
anxiety states include the initial management of mania and the
control of drug-induced hyperexcitability states (eg, phencyclidine
intoxication). Sedative-hypnotics are also used occasionally as
diagnostic aids in neurology and psychiatry

Answer 5

diazepam

Question 6

Psychiatric uses of benzodiazepines other than treatment of
anxiety states include the initial management of mania and the
control of drug-induced hyperexcitability states (eg, phencyclidine
intoxication).

Sedative-hypnotics are also used occasionally as
diagnostic aids in neurology and psychiatry