Local anaesthetic drugs: Adverse effects as reported through the ADROIT system in the UK

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1000-1006

  Nazir, Muhummad Sohaib ^a   Holdcroft, Anita ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Allergy; Gender; Local anaesthetics; Mortality; Pharmacovigilance

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; CETRIMIDE; EMLA; HYALURONIDASE; HYDROCORTISONE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; PRILOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRONCHOSPASM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMA; CONVULSION; DATA BASE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ARREST; SEX RATIO; STUPOR; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70549096186     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1813     Document Type: Article

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