Cropropamide and crotetamide

General information

Prethcamide is a mixture in equal parts by weight of cropropamide and crotethamide. It has similar actions to doxapram hydrochloride and has been used as a respiratory stimulant in humans as well as illicitly in racehorses [ ]. When crotetamide was given intravenously, the incidence of adverse reactions was 25% [ ].