Compounded steroids for epidural injections: What are the issues?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 523-526

  Benzon, Honorio T ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; BENZYL ALCOHOL; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; MACROGOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIRIPIRIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ARACHNOIDITIS; BRAIN REGION; DRUG COST; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ACCREDITATION; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; DRUG COMPOUNDING; DRUG CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MENINGITIS, FUNGAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRESERVATIVES, PHARMACEUTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STEROIDS;

EID: 84881325934     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182953039     Document Type: Note

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