Adverse Drug Interactions: A Handbook for Prescribers

Adverse cardiovascular drug interactions.

A Manual of Adverse Drug Interactions

must be taught to facilitate, and cardiologists who must continue to ask the right questions of the problems involved and strive to seek the answers to them. Professor Pantridge and his team are to be congratulated on their initiative, on their vision in seeing what the essential problems are and on their pertinacity in pressuring their aims. Their thesis is well argued. THIS excellent little b...

Adverse drug interactions in dentistry

According to the United States Food and Drug Administration web site, there are more than 15,000 currently approved prescription and over-the-counter drugs, diagnostics and intravenous supplementation products in the United States (78). Couple these with the hundreds of herbal and dietary supplements that undergo little if any scrutiny by the Food and Drug Administration (48), and it is no wond...

Adverse drug interactions in anesthesia.

Anesthesia often involves the administration of several drugs belonging to different classes. In addition, many patients will be taking a number of drugs related to their surgical condition or for other medical diseases. Thus, there is a considerable potential for drug interactions in the perioperative period, some of which may be potentially harmful to patients. The most common interactions in...

Adverse drug reaction monitoring: knowledge, attitude and practices of medical students and prescribers.

BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) contribute to excessive health care costs through increased patient morbidity and mortality. Thus, there is an urgent need to create awareness among physicians towards ADR monitoring. The present study was designed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of fifth semester undergraduate students and prescribers (interns, junior residents and senio...