Everybody welcome back to drug talk as always I’m your host garyx amble today are gonna be discussing medication known as ondansetron its brand name is zofran and before I talk about the medication itself just keep in mind that this website is for information purposes only and not to be used as a source for recommendations for your personal healthcare and quickly if any time during this video you find the information be valuable please consider leaving a like on the article as it would really help me

algorithm but first what will we cover in this presentation we’ll start by talking about how ondansetron works well then discuss indications or reasons we would prescribe this medication to a patient followed by contraindications or reasons we would not be able to prescribe on dance-a-tron well then discuss examples of dosing and then stick around to the end where we’ll talk about the side effects with percentages how does ondansetron work well in Dame’s atrani is a selective 5ht 3 receptor antagonist it blocks 5h t3 receptors

peripherally on the vagal nerve terminals and centrally in the chemoreceptor trigger zone in terms of indications or reasons we would prescribe this medication to a patient we often see it used for post-operative nausea and vomiting it can be used for chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting as well as radiation induced nausea and vomiting now with respect to contraindications or reasons we would not be able to prescribe this medication we wouldn’t be able to give it patients who have a hypersensitivity to ondansetron or to any other component of

the product and it also cannot be used with a poe morphine now what about dosing with on Danza Tron so in chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting we may see 24 milligrams dissolved orally on the tongue 30 minutes prior to the start of chemotherapy or post-operative nausea and vomiting we may see 16 milligrams dissolved orally on the tongue one hour before anesthesia for radiation induced nausea and vomiting we may see eight milligrams dissolved orally on the tongue 1 to 2 hours prior to radiotherapy and 8 hours after the

first dose for each day of radiotherapy now as with all medications there are some side effects or adverse reactions that patients may experience while using ondansetron so I’ll go over some of those here now 3 to 7% of patients may experience diarrhea while 6 to 9 percent may experience constipation a headache may occur in 9 to 27 percent of patients and hypocrisy may occur 9% of the time patients may also experience fatigue or malaise now some more rare but serious side effects would be a prolonged QT interval

or serotonin syndrome let’s all go to talk about today with ondansetron or zofran as I wasn’t very thankful you took the time to go by and read on my articles if you found the information valuable you’d like to help grow this website you can like the article share the article, See you next time, Good Bye