What is the generic name for Cerebyx?
What is the generic name for Cerebyx?
Generic Name & Formulations: Fosphenytoin sodium (prodrug of phenytoin) 75mg/mL (equivalent to 50mg/mL phenytoin sodium); soln for IV or IM inj.
What is Fosphenytoin used for?
Fosphenytoin injection is used to control certain types of seizures (convulsions) in the treatment of epilepsy. It is also used to prevent and treat seizures that occur during brain surgery. This medicine is an anticonvulsant that works in the brain tissue to stop seizures.
Is Cerebyx the same as Dilantin?
Are Cerebyx and Dilantin the Same Thing? Dilantin (phenytoin) and Cerebyx (fosphenytoin sodium) are anti-epileptic drugs (anticonvulsants) used to control seizures. Cerebyx is used only for a short time, such as 5 days, when other forms of phenytoin cannot be given.
Do doctors still prescribe phenobarbital?
Phenobarbital has been used to treat epilepsy since the early decades of the 20th century. It is still commonly used throughout the world because it is both effective and low in cost.
What is the side effects of fosphenytoin?
Common side effects of Cerebyx include:
- dizziness,
- drowsiness,
- headache,
- nausea,
- vomiting,
- constipation,
- dry mouth,
- itching,
How is fosphenytoin given?
Intravenous: When fosphenytoin is administered by IV infusion, maximum plasma fosphenytoin concentrations are achieved at the end of the infusion. Fosphenytoin has a half-life of approximately 15 minutes. Intramuscular: Fosphenytoin is completely bioavailable following IM administration of fosphenytoin.
How do you administer Cerebyx?
The loading dose of CEREBYX is 15 to 20 mg PE/kg at a rate of 2 mg PE/kg/min (or 150 mg PE/min, whichever is slower). Intramuscular administration of CEREBYX should ordinarily not be used in pediatric patients. When IV access has been impossible, loading doses of CEREBYX have been given by the IM route.
