Key words: Medications; Medications errors; Adverse drug events; Look-alike drugs; Sound-alike drugs Tall man lettering; Medication Errors Reporting Program; Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Citation: Ismail S and Taqi A. Medical errors related to look-alike and sound-alike drugs 展开 ...
“have fun, dream dreams, and get out of your own head!” Please keep in mind that the purpose of dreams is to raise our consciousness and to assist us in having better lives. The message in the dream about drug use is most likely not encouraging you to use drugs but it may ...
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by Elizabeth K. Gardner,Purdue University (Medical Xpress)—A Purdue University medication safety expert said it is important to look at the larger system surrounding medication use, as well as the facilities where drugs are made to avoid tragedies like the meningitis outbreak that has claimed 15 ...
These new drugs are created in response to our drug policy and new drugs will continue to emerge. It seems that whenever we're able to push one drug down, a newer, more dangerous syntheticdrug, pops up to take its place. Source:The Conversation ...
” and the answers that came back were, first of all, cancers of the brain. If we think about our glioblastomas, now the blood-brain barrier, it's harder for drugs to cross into there. It's harder to treat these cancers. But we don't have good biomarkers to identify and do early...
Romer,C - 《British Medical Journal》 被引量: 23发表: 1979年 Drug names that look or sound alike McNulty H, Spurr P. Romer,C - Bmj 被引量: 20发表: 1979年 Look-alike, sound-alike drug names. Due to the risk of medications errors from inadvertent interchange of drugs for which names...
A toxicology report later revealed seven different surgical drugs were found in her system. Was it murder or a terrible accident? The evidence presented at Joel Pellot's trial for the murder of his wife tells a different story from what he told police happened the day Muñoz died. Sept. ...
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has created its “List of Confused Drug Names” (http://www.ismp.org/tools/confuseddrugnames.pdf) to help raise awareness about the multitude of drug names that have been mixed up with one another. ISMP works continuously with drug manufacture...
Corticosteroids are the ones that are considered the type of drug which is used to treat certain medical conditions. On the other hand, ‘anabolic steroids are the drugs that can replicate the human sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone that can be taken illegally and often abused. ...