Give with food or milk to avoid GI distress

tal muscle spasm caused by upper motor neuron lesions

Medication Administration

Evaluation of Medication
Effectiveness

lf-dose with
Alcohol,
OTC drugs
CNS depressants,
without prescribers
MAO inhibitors,
approvalantihistamines compound CNS depression; baclofen may i
er potentially hazardous activities until the response to the drug is known
Medication/Food Interactions
Client Education

Coagulopathy, bacteremia, intramuscular or intrathecal administration

Contraindications
icity induced by baclofen may afect patients ability to stand or walk
Monitor orthostatic hypotension
S side efects: mental confusion, depression, hallucinations
siness, vertigo, dizziness, weakness, fatigue, headache, confusion, insomnia; ataxia, loss of seizure control; H

Adverse Efects

Nursing Interventions

f painful spasms in multiple sclerosis and in the management of detrusor sphincter dyssynergia in spinal cord
Therapeutic Uses
PHARMALOGICA
L ACTION:

Centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant that depresses monosynaptic and

polysynaptic aferent reflex activity at spinal cord level

EXPECTED

MEDICATION Baclofen 20 mg PO 4X day

TOPIC DESCRIPTOR

Multiple Sclerosis

CONTENT

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NAME Shannon Carr

Medication

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