Hallo.

Which drugs do You use before intubation the neonates, and what doses?

I notised that in every hospital people use different drugs. I wonder which drug is the most common.

We typically use midazolam 0.1mg/kg and/or morphine sulfate 0.1 mg/kg for elective intubations.

Our pre-med strategy usually includes a slow injection of morphine before intubation (0.1-0.2 mg/kg iv) and pentobarbital immediate before intubation (2-5 mg/kg iv).

We use fentanyl, atropine and suxamethonium.

we usually don not give medication for itubation of VLBW infants , but we give premedication for larger babies such as midazolam .

We use Morphine in our unit

Morphine Sulphate always, and Sux sometimes, depending on the docs preference.

We are currently using, Morphine 0.1mg/kg, Midazolam 0.1mg/kg and Tracrium (atracurium) 0.5mg/kg

Regards Norbert

Hi

for elective Intubation on Nicu (or changing tubes because of blocking or leakage) we use atropin, morphin 0,1-0,2 mg/kg, Trapanal 4 mg/kg, and (depending to doc) pancuronium. Works well, infants are stable, easy to intubate.

Greetings

Bernhard Bungert:)

Morphine + diazepam