Cautions with codeine

Australian Prescriber

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 133-135

  Iedema, Joel ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Opioids; Pharmacogenetics; Pharmacokinetics

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CITALOPRAM; CODEINE; CYTOCHROME P450 2D6; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PARACETAMOL; PAROXETINE; PLACEBO; SERTRALINE;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG MISUSE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FALLING; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY; LIVER TOXICITY; NAUSEA; NEWBORN DEATH; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHARMACOGENETICS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; TOOTH PAIN; VOMITING;

EID: 80053931777     PISSN: 03128008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18773/austprescr.2011.070     Document Type: Article

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