CNS Stimulants Question And Answers

CNS Stimulants

 

Question 1. Give A Brief Account On Respiratory Stimulants.
Answer:

Respiratory stimulants are also known as analeptics. Analeptics are drugs that stimulate respiration and have resuscitative in fainting or coma.

Doxapram is an analeptic or respiratory stimulant.

Respiratory Stimulants Actions

As a respiratory stimulant doxapram stimulates peripheral carotid chemoreceptors and leads to direct stimulation of the respiratory center.

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Respiratory Stimulants Adverse Effects

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Arrhythmias.

Respiratory Stimulants Toxic Effects

• Patients may get convulsions still in a coma if he is on analeptic therapy.
• Postictal depression adds to existing depression which may worsen the condition.

Respiratory Stimulants Therapeutic Uses

• The role of analeptics in therapeutics is very limited. The therapeutic uses are as follows:
• It is used in hypnotic drug poisoning.
• It is used in suffocation on drowning.
• It is used in respiratory failure due to the removal of the hypoxic drive.
• It is used in apnea in premature infants.