Clinical strategies to improve the safety use of nimodipine infusion

• In: Hospital Pharmacy Section Posters
• At: New Orleans (USA) (2004)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P031
• By: CHEN, Shawn (Taipei Medical University, School of Pharmacy, Taipei, China Taiwan)
• Co-author(s): Chiang (Taipei Medical University, TAIPEI, China Taiwan)
  Yang (Municipal Wan-fang Hospitol, China Taiwan)
  Yen (Taipei WanFang Hospital, China Taiwan)
  Chiu (Taipei WanFang Hospital, China Taiwan)
  
• Abstract:

  Nimodipine was used to prevent cerebral artery spasm in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage and ruptured cerebral aneurysms. The infusion solution of nimodipine containing 23.7% of ethanol was found to be hepatotoxic. A clinical strategy was developed to enhance the safety use of nimodipine intravenous solution. There were two phases of drug

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