Medical Reference for Common OTC Prescription and Drugs

Haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, haemoperfusion, exchange transfusion and forced diuresis have all been used in attempts to increase the rate of removal of drugs and poisons. How­ever, the amount of active drug removed is often disappointingly small, and the indications for the use of such measures is very limited. Never­theless, poisoned patients are often unnecessar­ily subjected [...]

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Therapeutic drug monitoring is based upon the collaboration between a health care provider (clinician, pharmacist, nurse) responsible for making quantitative and qualitative decisions about drug treatment and the clinical labora­tory providing analytical services for the measurement of drug concentrations. The in­formation provided by a drug concentration measurement is generally greater than for other substances measured [...]

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