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Buy Rivotril Clonazepam Australia  Clonazepam is a benzodiazepine used to manage seizures as well as other symptoms in people receiving palliative care, including anxiety and distress, poor sleep and terminal delirium. Incorrect administration of clonazepam presents a risk due to the potential for increased sedation or respiratory depression.

This case highlights a significant issue in medication safety related to the lack of standardisation in prescribing and administering clonazepam oral liquid. Most enteral liquid medications are prescribed in milligrams, and measured and administered in millilitres using an oral dispenser or enteral syringe (e.g. ENFit™). Clonazepam oral liquid is an exception. The manufacturer of the only registered product in Australia (Rivotril 2.5 mg/mL) recommends prescribing and measuring clonazepam doses as drops only, rather than milligrams and millilitres.¹ They recommend administering the dose by counting the drops onto a spoon using the dropper attached to the lid of the bottle, and have advised that using an oral syringe for measurement would be an off-label practice (personal communication with Pharmaco Australia Ltd, 20 November 2023). However, prescribing and administering clonazepam liquid in drops is not universally followed.

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An unpublished audit of clonazepam oral liquid administration errors at 5 healthcare facilities, conducted by the authors using NSW Health’s Incident Management System, revealed 10 errors over a 12-month period. The NSW Government Clinical Excellence Commission is currently developing an advisory on the safe use of clonazepam oral liquid.

SA Health and the Victorian Therapeutics Advisory Group have issued alerts for health professionals about the safe prescribing and administration of clonazepam oral liquid. Both alerts emphasise the need to prescribe clonazepam doses in number of DROPS, with number of milligrams (mg) in brackets, and to measure clonazepam oral liquid doses in DROPS

Clonazepam in Australia is included in Appendix D of the Poisons Standard. Appendix D places additional controls on the possession or supply of selected Schedule 4 poisons. Health services may require clonazepam to be stored in a restricted drug cupboard with a drug register. A factor that ma