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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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Pubblicato in:BMC Geriatr
Autori principali: Friesen, Kevin J., Falk, Jamie, Bugden, Shawn
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2016
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864911/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27170170
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0275-5
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