can anyone tell me what "respirine" is for, when given to a patient with multiple fractures, legs, wrist etc?

Answer 1

There are several medications spelled very similar to what you posted about, none of which are given specifically for a patient with multiple fractures.

Respirine or Reserpine (Serpasil) causes vasodilation and sedation. It could be used for hypertension (high blood pressure), but this would be a very rare use for this purpose.

More commonly, it would be used as sort of a sedative in a psychotic patient. Either to calm someone down that has a psychiatric disorder, such as schizophrenia, or used in a combative (perhaps demented) patient who is bahving in a way that is dangerous.

In the scenario you gave with a patient with "multiple fractures", perhaps they were in serious accident, broke many bones, and were in a "fight-or-flight" mode of agitation that was dangerous to themselves or others...and were given the medication...

Or, perhaps, it was an older person...perhaps slightly demented, that had fallen and broken their osteoporotic bones and were getting agitated, etc...and given this medication to calm them down a bit (sedate them)...

Or else, they were a young person with schizophrenia and/or on drugs that got beaten in a fight, or did something crazy to break a bunch of bones, and needed to be sedated with this medication...

All interesting, perhaps worthless, conjecture...but you many have just spelled the medication wrong if none of the scenarios (or a similar such scenario) doesn't fit.

But there are no medications in the U.S. used with a similar name for any other reason...and especially not for someone with multiple fractures, specifically.

Hope this helps.