Betekenis van:
ephedrine
ephedrine
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- efedrine
- white odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- Ephedrine
- theophylline ephedrine
- Ephedrine and its salts
- Ephedrine and its salts
- Hence ephedrine, which causes noradrenaline release at the nerve endings, thereby increasing cardiac contractility and obtunding hypotension, is used when dobutamine and dopamine are ineffective.
- Ephedrine lasts minutes to hours and is effective after a single intravenous injection, whereas dobutamine and dopamine last only a few seconds or minutes and must be given by infusion.