Ergometrine

Indication : Why is this medication prescribed?

Active management of 3rd stage of labor. Postpartum and post abortion. Excessive uterine bleeding. Prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage.

Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?

Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient
Pregnancy, 1st and 2nd stage of labour, patients with preeclampsia, eclampsia or threatened spontaneous abortion; porphyria.

Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication

Breech and abnormal foetal presentation; hypertension; chronic anaemia, hepatic, renal, resp or cardiac impairment, toxemia, lactation, hypocalcaemia. Monitor BP, pulse and uterine response.

What are possible side effects of this medication ?

Nausea, vomiting, rise in BP, decreased milk secretion, gangrene. Abdominal pain, diarrhoea, headache, dizziness, tinnitus, chest pain, palpitation, bradycardia, transient HTN and other cardiac arrhythmias, dyspnoea, sometimes rashes, shock MI, pulmonary oedema.

Drug Category/Class

Ergometrine has 13 Brands listed


Ergometrine (0.2 mg)Hicon (0.125 mg)
Imergen (0.125 mg)Imergen (0.2 mg)
Ingagen M (0.125 mg)Lebergin (0.2 mg)
Lerin (0.125 mg)Merzen (0.125 mg)
Merzen (1 mg)Methastar (0.125 mg)
Methastar (0.2 mg)Miometrin (0.125 mg)
Miometrin (0.2 mg)

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