Patient/caregiver was educated on the side-effects of using triazolam as follows:
Mood disturbances
- Patients are at risk to experience hallucinations and mood disturbances, such as, exacerbation of anxiety and depressive symptoms, with triazolam use.
Short-term memory loss
- Triazolam carries the risk of inducing temporary short-term memory loss and confusion, when you wake up the following morning, thus compromising safety and leading to falls and accidents.
Respiratory depression
- Triazolam, as part of depression of the CNS for inducing sleep, can also cause depression of the respiratory center in the brain.
- This induces slowing down of respirations and the breathing pattern can become irregular.
- This can result in reduced gas exchange with elevated carbon-di-oxide and reduced oxygen levels in the body.
- The risk for respiratory depression can increase heavily with concurrent use of any other medications, also causing depression of CNS, such as, narcotic pain medications, antihistamines, and muscle relaxants.
