Active Ingredient: Clonidine
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
For:
Intravenous, between 150 micrograms clonidine and 300 micrograms clonidine, 1 to 5 times daily, over the duration of 1 day. The maximum allowed total dose is 750 micrograms clonidine daily.
In hypertensive crises 150 to 300 micrograms should be given by slow intravenous injection. This dose may be repeated up to a maximum of 750 micrograms in a 24 hour period.
Patients undergoing anaesthesia should continue their clonidine treatment before, during and after anaesthesia using oral or intravenous administration according to individual circumstances.
Intravenous injection of clonidine should be given slowly over 10–15 minutes to avoid a possible transient pressor effect.
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