Treatment of severe hypertension by repeated bolus injections of labetalol.

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • Vol. 8, 199S-204S
Abstract
1 Repeated intravenous bolus injections of labetalol were administered to 15 severely hypertensive patients. In 11 instances, a standard protocol was followed in which a loading dose of 1 mg/kg was given intravenously over 1 min, followed by up to five bolus injections of 50 mg at 10-min intervals. In two further patients, bolus doses varying from 25-100 mg were given after the loading dose, and in two others the loading dose was omitted.