• DOI:10.2165/00003495-198019040-00001
Corpus ID: 24713213

Nefopam: A Review of its Pharmacological Properties and Therapeutic Efficacy

@article{Heel2012NefopamAR,
  title={Nefopam: A Review of its Pharmacological Properties and Therapeutic Efficacy},
  author={R. Heel and R. Brogden and G. Pakes and T. Speight and G. Avery},
  journal={Drugs},
  year={2012},
  volume={19},
  pages={249-267}
}

R. Heel, R. Brogden, +2 authors G. Avery

Published 2012

Medicine

Drugs

SummarySynopsis: Nefopam1 is a non-narcotic analgesic not structurally related to other analgesic drugs. It is effective by the oral and parenteral routes, and when appropriate dose ratios were compared in short term studies it was shown to produce analgesia comparable to that with the oral analgesics aspirin, dextropropoxyphene and pentazocine, as well as that with ‘moderate’ doses of parenteral morphine, pethidine and pentazocine. However, when ‘higher’ dose ratios were compared, morphine and… CONTINUE READING

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