Enhancing the relative safety of intentional or unintentional intrathecal methylprednisolone administration by removing polyethylene glycol

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1487-1489

  Candido, Kenneth D ^a,b   Knezevic, Ivana ^a,b   Mukalel, Jessen ^a   Knezevic, Nebojsa Nick ^b  

^a ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; DRUG SAFETY; EXTRACTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PH; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DRUG PACKAGING; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; PATIENT SAFETY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS;

EID: 82255162751     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31823526d7     Document Type: Article

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