{"id":96,"date":"2013-10-20T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2013-10-20T19:26:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:26:30","slug":"precedex-does-not-cause-respiratory-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/precedex-does-not-cause-respiratory-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Precedex does not cause respiratory depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Dexmedetomidine<\/strong>\u00a0(Precedex)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hp-precedexLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97\" alt=\"hp-precedexLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hp-precedexLogo-300x65.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hp-precedexLogo-300x65.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hp-precedexLogo.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sedation without <strong>respiratory<\/strong> depression<\/li>\n<li>Ideal for use in the Intensive Care Unit.<\/li>\n<li>Can be used for managing extubations.<\/li>\n<li>No absolute contraindications<\/li>\n<li>Compared to Versed (Midazolam), Precedex is associated with less delirium, tachycardia, and hypotension, but had more bradycardia<\/li>\n<li>Agonist of alpha 2 adrenergic receptors in the brain<\/li>\n<li>FDA reports that infusions greater than <strong>24 hours<\/strong> in duration include ARDS, respiratory failure, and agitation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dexmedetomidine\u00a0(Precedex) Sedation without respiratory depression Ideal for use in the Intensive Care Unit. Can be used for managing extubations. No absolute contraindications Compared to Versed (Midazolam), Precedex is associated with less delirium, tachycardia, and hypotension, but had more bradycardia Agonist of alpha 2 adrenergic receptors in the brain FDA reports that infusions greater than 24 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/precedex-does-not-cause-respiratory-depression\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Precedex does not cause respiratory depression<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,187,160,1],"tags":[189,188],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icu","category-precedex","category-surgical-icu","category-uncategorized","tag-dexmedetomidine","tag-respiratory-depression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}