Ritodrine
Drug Status in Canada : Approved
Indication : Why is this medication prescribed?
Uncomplicated preterm labor.
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
Hypersensitivity. Pregnancy. Antepartum haemorrhage, eclampsia and severe preeclampsia, intrauterine foetal death, cardiac disease. Threatened miscarriage, placenta praevia and cord compression.Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication
Concurrent steroids, hyperthyroidism, myocardial insufficiency, arrhythmias, hypertension, DM, bronchial asthma treated with beta-agonists, lactation.
What are possible side effects of this medication ?
Tachycardia, tremor, nausea, vomiting, headache or erythema, nervousness, restlessness, litteriness, emotional upset, anxiety, malaise. Rarely arrhythmias, pulmonary oedema, hypokalaemia.
Drug Category/Class
- Adrenergic beta-2 Receptor Agonists
- Sympathomimetics
- Tocolytic Agents
- Sympathomimetics, Labour Repressants
- Genito Urinary System and Sex Hormones
- Beta2 Agonists
- Sympathomimetics, labour repressants
| Prescribed | For the treatment and prophylaxis of premature labour |
| Weight : | 287.3535 |
| Structure | Ritodrine |
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| Formula | C17H21NO3 |
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