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Vecuronium Bromide 4mg, 10mg, Vecuronium bromide is one of a group of

drugs called muscle relaxants.
20mg for injection
Muscle relaxants are used during an operation
Package leaflet: Information for the as part of a general anaesthetic. When you
patient have an operation your muscles must be
Vecuronium Bromide 4mg, 10mg, 20mg for completely relaxed. This makes it easier for
injection Taj Pharma the surgeon to perform the operation.
Vecuronium bromide Normally, your nerves send messages called
Read all of this leaflet carefully before you are impulses to your muscles. Vecuronium
given this medicine because it contains bromide acts by blocking these impulses so
important information for you. that your muscles relax. Because your
breathing muscles also relax, you will need
- Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it help to breathe (artificial ventilation) during
again. and after your operation until you can breathe
on your own again.
- If you have any further questions, ask your
anaesthetist or other doctor. During the operation your anaesthetist will
keep a check on the effect of the muscle
- If you get any side effects, talk to your relaxant, and if necessary will give you some
anaesthetist or doctor. This includes any more. At the end of surgery, the effects of the
possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. drug are allowed to wear off and you will start
See section 4. breathing on your own. Sometimes the
anaesthetist will give you another drug to
What is in this leaflet
help speed this up.
1. What Vecuronium bromide is and what it
2. What you need to know before Vecuronium
is used for
bromide is given to you
2. What you need to know before
You should not be given Vecuronium
Vecuronium bromide is given to you
bromide:
3. How Vecuronium bromide is given
• if you are allergic (hypersensitive) to
4. Possible side effects vecuronium, the bromide ion or any of the
other ingredients of this medicine (listed in
5. How to store Vecuronium bromide section 6).
6. Contents of the pack and other Tell your anaesthetist if this applies to you.
information
Warnings and precautions
1. What Vecuronium bromide is and what it is
used for Talk to your anaesthetist before you receive
Vecuronium bromide:
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• if you are allergic to muscle relaxants Other medicines and Vecuronium bromide

• if you have had kidney, heart, liver or gall Tell your anaesthetist if you are taking, have
bladder disease recently taken or might take any other
medicines. This includes medicines or herbal
• if you have had diseases affecting nerves products that you have bought without a
and muscles prescription. Vecuronium bromide may affect
other medicines or be affected by them.
• if you have fluid retention (oedema).

Tell your anaesthetist if any of these applies to Medicines which increase the effect of
Vecuronium bromide:
you.

Some conditions may influence the effects of • certain antibiotics;

Vecuronium bromide, for example: • certain medicines for heart disease or high
blood pressure (water tablets, calcium
• low calcium levels in the blood
channel blockers, beta-blockers and
• low potassium levels in the blood quinidine);

• high magnesium levels in the blood • certain anti-inflammatory medicines

(corticosteroids);
• low levels of protein in the blood
• medicines for manic depressive illness
• too much acid in the blood (bipolar disorder);
• too much carbon dioxide in the blood • magnesium salts;
loss of too much water from the body, for • the medicine called cimetidine, used to treat
example by being sick, diarrhoea or sweating stomach ulcers, heartburn or acid reflux;
(dehydration)
• local anaesthetics (lidocaine);
• over-breathing leading to too little carbon
dioxide in the blood (alkalosis) • medicines which cause increased volume of
urine (diuretics).
• general ill-health
Medicines which decrease the effect of
• burns Vecuronium bromide:
• being very overweight (obesity) • chronic use of medicines for epilepsy
(phenytoin, carbamazepine);
• very low body temperature (hypothermia).
• calcium chloride and potassium chloride.
If you have any of these conditions, your
anaesthetist will take this into account when In addition, you may be given other medicines
deciding the correct dose of Vecuronium before or during surgery which can alter the
bromide for you. effects of Vecuronium bromide. These include
certain anaesthetics, other muscle relaxants,
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medicines such as phenytoin and medicines • the type of anaesthetic

which reverse the effects of Vecuronium
bromide. Vecuronium bromide may make • the expected length of the operation
certain anaesthetics work more quickly.
other drugs you are taking
Your anaesthetist will take this into account
• your state of health
when deciding the correct dose of
Vecuronium bromide for you. • your age.

Pregnancy and breast-feeding The normal dose is 80 – 100 micrograms per

kg body weight and the effect will last 24 – 60
Tell your anaesthetist if you are pregnant or
minutes. During the procedure it will be
breast- feeding, think you may be pregnant or checked whether Vecuronium bromide is still
are planning to have a baby. working. You may be given additional doses if
Your anaesthetist may still give you they are needed.
Vecuronium bromide, but you need to discuss If you receive more Vecuronium bromide than
it first. Vecuronium bromide may be given to
you should
you if you are having a Caesarean section.
As your anaesthetist will be monitoring your
Driving and using machines condition carefully it is unlikely that you will
Do not drive or use machines until advised it be given too much Vecuronium bromide.
is safe to do so. Because Vecuronium bromide However if this happens, your anaesthetist
is given as part of a general anaesthetic, you will keep you breathing artificially (on a
may feel tired, weak or dizzy for some time ventilator) until you can breathe on your own.
afterwards. Your anaesthetist will be able to It is possible to counteract the effects of (too
advise you on how long the effects are likely much) vecuronium bromide and speed-up
to last. your recovery by giving you a drug that
reverses the effect of vecuronium bromide.
3. How Vecuronium bromide is given You will be kept asleep while this takes place.

Vecuronium bromide will be given to you by If you have any further questions on the use of
your anaesthetist. Vecuronium bromide is this medicine, ask your anaesthetist or other
given intravenously (into a vein), either as doctor.
single injections or as a continuous infusion (a
drip). 4. Possible side effects

The dose Like all medicines, this medicine can cause

side effects, although not everybody gets
Vecuronium bromide can be used in adults them. If these side effects occur while you are
and children of all ages including infants and under anaesthetic, they will be seen and
newborns. Your anaesthetist will work out the treated by your anaesthetist.
dose of Vecuronium bromide you need based
on: Uncommon (may affect up to 1 in 100 people)
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• the medicine is too effective, or not effective What Vecuronium bromide looks like and
enough contents of the pack

• the medicine works for longer than Vecuronium bromide is a white powder for
expected solution for injection.

• lowering of blood pressure There are 1, 10, 20, 20 (2x10) and 100 vials of
Vecuronium bromide per pack.
• increase in heart rate.

Very rare (may affect up to 1 in 10,000 people) 7. Manufactured By:

Taj Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
• allergic (hypersensitivity) reactions (such as
difficulty in breathing, collapse of the at: Plot. No. 220, Mahagujarat
Industrial Estate, At & Post-Moraiya,
circulation and shock)
Tal-Sanand, Dist- Ahmedabad Gujarat (India)
• wheezing of the chest

• muscle weakness

• swelling, a rash or redness of the skin

• pain near the site of injection.

Reporting of side effects

If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor

or anaesthetist. This includes any possible side
effects not listed in this leaflet.

5. How to store Vecuronium bromide

The hospital will keep Vecuronium bromide

according to the correct storage conditions.

6. Contents of the pack and other information

What Vecuronium bromide contains

- The active substance is vecuronium

bromide. Each

vial contains 10 mg of vecuronium bromide. It

is dissolved before use to make a solution.

- The other ingredients are citric acid

monohydrate, disodium phosphate
dihydrate, mannitol, sodium hydroxide, and
phosphoric acid.