(rem i FEN ta nil) Brand: Ultiva
• You must not receive this medicine if you are allergic to remifentanil.
• Till you receive remifentanil, speak your doctor about all of your medical conditions. You may need a doze adjustment or particular trials to safely receive this medication.
• Speak your doctor if you are pregnant or breast-feeding till you are treated with remifentanil.
• Your breathing and another vital signs will be constantly monitored while you are being treated with remifentanil.
• Remifentanil can reason side effects that may impair your thinking or reactions. You must not plan on driving or doing anything that requires you to be awake and alert right after you are treated with this medication.
• Follow your doctor's instructions about any another restrictions on food, beverages, or activity after you are treated with remifentanil.
• Remifentanil is a narcotic (opioid) pain medicine.
• Remifentanil is used to treat or prevent acute pain after surgery.
• Remifentanil may be used for another purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• You must not receive this medicine if you are allergic to remifentanil.
• Till you receive remifentanil, speak your doctor about all of your medical conditions. You may need a doze adjustment or particular trials to safely receive this medication.
• FDA pregnancy category C. Remifentanil may be deleterious to an unborn child. Till you receive this medicine, speak your doctor if you are pregnant.
• It is not known whether remifentanil passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing child. Do not receive this medicine without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
• Remifentanil is given as an injection through a needle placed into a vein. You will receive this injection in a hospital or surgery center.
• Remifentanil is generally given slowly through an IV infusion connected to exhaust that will release the correct doze of the medicine to provide continuous pain relief during and after your surgery.
• Your breathing and another vital signs will be constantly monitored while you are being treated with remifentanil.
• You may be given another pain medications to use after your remifentanil treatment is discontinued.
• Since remifentanil is given as needed by a healthcare professional for only a short time, it is not likely that you will miss a dose.
• Search abnormal medical attention if you think you have received too many of this medication. Overdose symptoms may include slow breathing, chest tightness, slow heart course, extreme weakness or dizziness, seizure, or fainting.
• Remifentanil can reason side effects that may impair your thinking or reactions. You must not plan on driving or doing anything that requires you to be awake and alert right after you are treated with this medication.
• Follow your doctor's instructions about any another restrictions on food, beverages, or activity after you are treated with remifentanil.
• Get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Your caregivers will monitor you for any of these serious side effects, which may clear up within minutes after stopping the remifentanil infusion or decreasing the dose:
· weak, shallow breathing, or breathing that stops;
· quick or slow heart rate;
· stiff muscles; or
· severe weakness, feeling light-headed or fainting.
• Smaller serious side effects may include:
· nausea, vomiting, constipation, dry mouth;
· shivering;
· itching or sweating;
· headache;
· muscle pain;
· cough, sore throat;
· dizziness, confusion, agitation;
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Speak your doctor about any unusual or bothersome side effect. You may message side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
• There may be another drugs that can interact with remifentanil. Speak your doctor about all your prescription and over-the-counter medications, vitamins, minerals, herbal commodity, and drugs predesigned by another doctors. Do not start a new medicine without telling your doctor.
• Your doctor or pharmacist can provide more information about remifentanil.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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