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MHRA alert: Benzodiazepines and opioids - reminder of risk of potentially fatal respiratory depression (March 2020) (www.gov.uk).
Tablets 2mg, 5mg, 10mg
Oral solution 2mg/5mL
Rectal solution 5mg/2·5mL, 10mg/2·5mL
Tablets 1mg
Solution for injection 4mg/mL (licensed and unlicensed preparations)
Oromucosal solution 50mg/5mL (Epistatus®) (CD schedule 3) unlicensed
Solution for injection 10mg/2mL, 5mg/5mL (CD schedule 3)
The 10mg/2mL injection is used in Palliative Care as a subcutaneous bolus injection; refer to Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines.
Solution for infusion 50mg/50mL (CD schedule 3)
Nasal solution (midazolam 20mg, lidocaine 10mg/0·5mL (CD schedule 3) unlicensed
For use by anaesthetists only, for the sedation of patients for whom traditional methods of sedation (oral or intravenous) are contraindicated or unsuitable.
Tablets 10mg
Oral solution 10mg/5mL
TAM (Treatments and Medicines) NHS Highland