HYDROCORTISONE/EFCORTESOL AMPOULE 100MG/ML X5 x5

Solution for injection - Hydrocortisone Sodium Phosphate 13.39% w/v.

Therapeutic indications
• This presentation permits rapid use in emergency situations involving the following conditions:
• Status asthmaticus and acute allergic reactions, including anaphylactic reaction to drugs. This medicine supplements the action of adrenaline.
• Severe shock arising from surgical or accidental trauma or overwhelming infection.
• Acute adrenal insufficiency caused by abnormal stress in Addison's disease, hypopituitarism, following adrenalectomy, and when adrenocortical function has been suppressed by prolonged corticosteroid therapy.
• Soft tissue lesions such as tennis elbow, tenosynovitis, or bursitis.

Note: This medicine does not replace other forms of therapy for the treatment of shock and status asthmaticus

Features

Nature and contents of container
• 1ml and 5ml neutral glass ampoules.

Special precautions for storage
• Store below 25°C. Keep the ampoules in the outer carton.