Description
Composition
| Butorphanol | 10 mg (equivalent to butorphanol tartrate 14.6 mg). |
Characteristics
Dolorex (butorphanol tartrate injection) is a totally synthetic, centrally acting, narcotic agonist-antagonist analgesic with potent antitussive activity.
Indications
Dolorex is indicated for the relief of pain associated with colic in adult horses and yearlings. Clinical studies in the horse have shown that butorphanol tartrate alleviates abdominal pain associated with torsion, impaction, intussusception, spasmodic and tympanic colic and postpartum pain.