Tramadol HCL Drug Study

In making a Drug Study, the following elements must be present: Generic Name and the Brand name (not all brands, just the brand used by the patient), Action, Indication, Pregnancy Category, Drug Classification, and Contraindication, Adverse Effect, Drug interaction and Nursing Consideration/Intervention…. Most clinical instructors preferred this to be in a long bond paper in printed or handwritten with paper in landscape.

tramadol hydrochloride

Brand Name: Ultram

Pregnancy Category C

Drug class: centrally acting analgesic

Therapeutic actions

Binds to mu-opioid receptors and inhibits the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin; causes many effects similar to the opioids--dizziness, somnolence, nausea, constipation--but does not have the respiratory depressant effects.

Indication

· Relief of moderate to moderately severe pain

Contraindications

· Contraindicated with pregnancy; allergy to tramadol; acute intoxication with alcohol, opioids, psychotropic drugs or other centrally acting analgesics; lactation.

· Use cautiously with seizures, concomitant use of CNS depressants or MAOIs, renal or hepatic impairment.

Adverse effects

Sedation, dizziness/vertigo, headache, confusion, dreaming, sweating, anxiety, seizures, Hypotension, tachycardia, bradycardia, Sweating, pruritus, rash, pallor, urticaria, Nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, constipation, flatulence, Potential for abuse, anaphylactoid reactions

Drug Interactions:

· Decreased effectiveness with carbamazepine

· Increased risk of tramadol toxicity with MAOIs

Nursing considerations

· Provide environmental control (temperature, lighting) if sweating, CNS effects occur.