Whats in the Diazepam Instruction Manual?

Update Date: 2024-06-19 Source: Network

Diazepam is a benzodiazepine drug with anti-anxiety, sedative-hypnotic, anti-convulsant, anti-epileptic, and central skeletal muscle relaxant effects.

1. Anti-anxiety effects:

1) Low doses have good anti-anxiety effects, improving symptoms such as nervousness, anxiety, excitement, and irritability in patients. It is effective for anxiety caused by various reasons;
2) Administration before anesthesia can relieve patients' fear of surgery and reduce the dosage of anesthetics;
3) It is also used for cardiac defibrillation or endoscopy.

2. Sedative-hypnotic effects:

Sedative-hypnotic effects are fast and reliable, able to shorten sleep latency, reduce the number of awakenings, significantly prolong sleep duration, and have little effect on rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. It induces a sleep state similar to physiological sleep, with slow tolerance and dependence development, and is unlikely to cause rebound prolongation of REM sleep after discontinuation.

3. Anti-convulsant and anti-epileptic effects:

It is used as adjunctive therapy for tetanus, eclampsia (obstetric and gynecological disease), febrile seizures in children, and drug-induced seizures. Intravenous injection of diazepam is currently the preferred drug for the treatment of status epilepticus.

4. Central skeletal muscle relaxant effects:

It can relieve reflex muscle spasms caused by inflammation of local muscles or joints, muscle spasms associated with lesions of upper motor neurons, athetosis, and stiff-person syndrome, and muscle spasms caused by temporomandibular joint disorders.