Evaluation of rational use of meperidine for acute pancreatitis in one medical center

• In: Posters: Hospital Pharmacy Section
• At: Bangkok (Thailand) (2014)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HPS012
• By: CHANG, Yi-Tung (Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Department of pharmacy, Taichung, China Taiwan)
• Co-author(s): Lee, Chien-Ying (Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, China Taiwan)
  
• Abstract:

  Background: The medication selection for severe pain of acute pancreatitis usually is meperidine. Meperidine has a half-life of approximately 2-4 hours, its active metabolite normeperidine, half-life is 15 to 30 hours. Long-term use use of meperidine may increase the risk of toxicity from the accumulation of the meperidine metabolite. Meperidine..

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