Kochia hay that had elicited mild toxicosis in sheep and cattle when fed for 21 d was fed to young, growing steers to evaluate the efficacy of metoclopramide for preventing kochia toxicosis. Twelve steers (271 +/- 39 kg) were given ad libitum access to Kochia hay for 38 d. Six steers were dosed orally with 15 mg of metoclopramide/kg of BW three times each week in gelatin capsules, and six steer...

Ranitidine and metoclopramide are routinely given intravenously before surgical procedures that involve spinal or general anesthesia. Recently, another institution contacted our institution to request stability data to support the practice of routinely mixing ranitidine 50 mg and metoclopramide 10 mg in a 50-mL minibag of normal saline (0.9% sodium chloride) for IV administration before cesarea...

T he provision of enteral nutrition shortly after admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with beneficial outcomes. The development of high residual volumes frequently impedes the delivery of gastric feeding and may be associated with deleterious outcomes. 3 The most common therapeutic option for managing high gastric residual volumes is the initiation of prokinetic therapy wit...

A new spectrophotometric method for the determination of each dapsone and metoclopramide HCl alone in two different tablet preparations is described. The reactions were completed at room temperature within 9 and 20 minutes, respectively. Maximum absorbances for the reaction products were observed at 548 nm (dapsone) and 553 nm (metoclopramide HCl). Beer’s law was obeyed over the concentration r...

The efficacy of preanaesthetic intravenous cimetidine versus ranitidine with and without metoclopramide for acid aspiration prophylaxis was assessed in 60 morbidly obese patients in a double-blind manner. Group 1 patients received cimetidine 300 mg + saline. Group 2 patients received cimetidine 300 mg + metoclopramide 10 mg. Group 3 patients received ranitidine 100 mg + saline. Group 4 patients...

We have compared the effectiveness of ondansetron (115 patients) and metoclopramide (101 patients) for prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing cardiac surgery involving cardiopulmonary bypass. In a prospective, randomized, controlled, double-blind study, patients received oral ondansetron 16 mg or oral metoclopramide 10 mg, 1-2 h before surgery. Anaesthesia was no...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Chemotherapy-induced emesis is a limiting factor in treating children with malignancies. Intensive chemotherapy regimens along with emetogenic drug administration have increased the frequency and severity of emesis and nausea. Our study was designed to consider the importance of this problem and the need for improvement in emesis treatment for patients receiving chemothera...

Central dopaminergic mechanisms involved in the regulation of plasma aldosterone concentration were investigated in 16 conscious sheep following Na depletion with intramuscularly administered furosemide. Intracerebroventricular infusion of dopamine (20 micrograms/min) decreased plasma aldosterone significantly to 52 +/- 8% of basal level and increased plasma renin activity (PRA) significantly t...

BACKGROUND Diabetes-induced gastroparesis is believed to increase fasting gastric fluid volume before elective surgery. Metoclopramide is routinely administered preoperatively to reduce gastric fluid volume in these patients. This study compared nondiabetic controls to non-insulin-dependent and insulin-dependent diabetics to determine the effect of metoclopramide, administered before surgery, o...

BACKGROUND Propofol injection pain is a frequent and a well-known complaint distressing for the patients. Although the ethiology of this pain remains obscure, the ideal method for the prevention of propofol injection pain is still controversial. Local anesthetics, opioids, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, ketamine, metoclopramide, droperidol have been tested. We aimed to conduct a study co...