Severe adverse drug reactions are an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Despite this, few reports in the literature describe it. This study was designed to evaluate the admitted pediatric patients due to adverse drug reactions. This retrospective study was conducted at Pediatric ward of Besat Hospital. The records of hospitalized patients that admitted with diagnosis of adver...

In any given week, four out of five U.S. adults will use prescription medicines, over-the-counter drugs, or dietary and herbal supplements. Nearly one-third of adults take five or more different medications. Given the volume of medications being taken, medication-related injuries may seem inevitable; however, injuries due to errors in medication prescribing, dispensing and administration are pr...

INTRODUCTION Surgical patients are exposed to multiple foreign substances in the perioperative period including drugs, blood products, or environmental antigens such as latex. Because any substance can produce an allergic or adverse reaction, clinicians must be ready to manage patients in this perioperative environment. The most life-threatening form of an allergic reaction is anaphylaxis, howe...

| August 2014 | 798 Finally, the authors detected a higher prevalence of more serious and life-threatening types of ACDR like Stevens Johnson and toxic epidermal necrolysis in their study. This finding is so important and may be due to the difference in type and potency of metabolic pathways in Iranian patients due to their ethnic groups, or it may be due to not including the above mentioned ri...

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An adverse drug reaction (ADR) is an unwanted, undesirable effect of a medication that occurs during usual clinical use. Adverse drug reactions occur almost daily in health care institutions and can adversely affect a patient’s quality of life, often causing considerable morbidity and mortality. Much attention has been given to identifying the patient populations most at risk, the drugs most co...