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Sodium nitroprusside
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Sodium nitroprusside
Sodium nitroprusside
Drug details
Drug classVasodilator
Conditions linked to this drug
4Listed side effects / symptoms
27- Behaviour: Restlessness
- Blood Pressure Below Normal (Hypotension)
- Blood: Platelet Count Low (Thrombocytopenia)
- Blood: Thyroid Hormone Low (Hypothyroidism)
- Brain or Intracranial Pressure Increase
- Cyanide Toxicity
- Dizziness
- Feeling Warm
- Flushing
- Headache (Cephalgia)
- Heart or Pulse Rate Lowered (Bradycardia)
- Heart or Pulse Rate Raised (Tachycardia)
- Heartbeats Felt By Patient (Palpitations)
- Intestinal obstruction (Ileus)
- Kidney (Renal) Impairment
- Metabolic Acidosis
- Muscle Spasm (Twitching)
- Nausea
- Pain Abdominal
- Pain: Chest
- Postural hypotension
- Skin Irritation
- Skin Rash
- Skin Tingling Or Numbness (Paresthesias)
- Sweating (Perspiring)
- Vein Collapse at site of Injection (Thrombophlebitis)
- Vomiting
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