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The safety of meperidine prescribing in older adults: A longitudinal population-based study
BACKGROUND: Meperidine (pethidine) is an opioid analgesic that offers little advantage relative to other opioids and several disadvantages including limited potency, short duration of action, and the production of a neurotoxic metabolite (normeperidine) with a long half-life. Older adults are more s...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864911/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27170170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0275-5 |