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Analgesics
Research from S. Upadhyay and colleagues has provided new data on analgesics
December 23rd, 2008
According to recent research from New Delhi, India, "An 80-year-old male was diagnosed with carcinoma in the lung with multiple bony metastases and had been prescribed pain medications as per World Health Organization analgesic ladder guidelines. However, he was not getting adequate pain relief and there were difficulties in titration of the morphine doses on an outpatient basis." "Therefore, he was hospitalized for dose titration of oral morphine and was coprescribed amitriptyline and ranitidine. During the titration of the analgesic close, he developed severe symptoms of morphine overdose. He was immediately treated with intravenous naloxone. After prolonged infusion...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-12-23)
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