Burn injuries are an incident that can have serious traumatic consequences. Degree of tissue damage depends on height of heat and duration of contact. It can be classified as 4 different burn degrees. Herbal treatments can be applied for alleviating the symptoms alongside with pharmacological treatments in clinic. Aloe vera are used for burn cases for so many years because of its antiinflammatory, antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, antidiabetic and rapid burn wound healing effects. Our aim in this study is to compare different doses of Aloe vera gel with burn medications in market. 48 female Sprague-Dawley rats divided into 8 groups (negative control, positive control, Silverdin®, Bepanthol®, Sudocrem®, Aloe vera 30 mg, Aloe vera 60 mg, Aloe vera 90 mg). For burn modelling, back of the rats were exposed to 90 o
A fever above 38°C is a common complication in the first few days after major surgery. Drug-induced fever is the most common cause of fever among the noninfectious causes of postoperative fever. Antimicrobial drugs and heparin, widely used for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after major orthopedic surgery, are the drugs most commonly associated with postoperative fever. This case study, showing that enoxaparin may be the drug responsible for unexplained fever, may help significantly reduce patient morbidity and the additional costs of investigating the underlying causes of fever. At this stage, the approaches of the clinical pharmacist to provide counseling services to the patient and the healthcare professional in the treatment of medications, the detection of side effects of medications and the suggestion of a solution are important.
Amaç: Çoklu ilaç kullanımına bağlı olarak gelişen ilaç-ilaç etkileşimleri (DDI) advers ilaç reaksiyonlarının en önemli nedenidir. İlaç hatalarından bir tanesi olarak sayılan DDI önlenebilir. Sağlık profesyonellerinin tıbbi ve pratik bilgilerinin yanında kullanacakları entegre bilgisayarlı ilaç etkileşimi kontrol sistemleri, tek başlarına yeterli olmamakla beraber olası etkileşimlerin azaltılması için sağlık personeline yardımcı olabilir. Bu çalışmada ayaktan pediatri hastalarına reçete edilen klaritromisin ile potansiyel DDI'ların (PDDI) belirlenmesi ve önlenmesinde bilgisayarlı ilaç etkileşimi kontrol sistemlerinin rolünün araştırılması amaçlanmıştır. Yöntemler: Retrospektif gözlemsel reçete analizi niteliğinde olan bu çalışmada, 12 aylık periyotta (Ocak-Aralık 2016) pediatrik ayaktan hastalara solunum yolu enfeksiyonu tanısı ile oral klaritromisin yazılan reçeteler İstanbul ili Üsküdar ilçesinde faaliyet gösteren ve çalışmaya katılmayı kabul eden, üç serbest eczaneden toplanarak müstahzar isim ve sayıları ile hasta demografik verileri (yaş, cinsiyet) kayıt edildi. PDDI'lar etkin madde bazında R x MediaPharma® programı ile tespit analiz edildi. Bulgular: On iki aylık periyotta 52 farklı hekim tarafından 266 adet müstahzarın reçetelendiği 100 adet reçete toplanmış olup, reçete başına ortalama müstahzar sayısı 2,66±1,11 idi. Tespit edilen 16 PDDI'nın 5'i klaritromisin (%31,25) ve 11 tanesi klaritromisin dışı (%68,75) idi. PDDI'lar şiddet bazında kategorize edildiğinde, toplam 16 etkileşimden 10 tanesi (%62,5) yüksek, 2 tanesi (%12,5) orta ve 4'ü (%25) düşük idi. Klaritromisin etkileşimleri ise: Lidokain ile orta; metronidazol ve sultamisin (ampisilin/sulbaktam) ile ise minör kategorisinde idi. Sonuç: Hızlı erişim imkanı sağlayan bilgisayarlı ilaç etkileşimi kontrol sistemleri tek başlarına yeterli olmamakla beraber PDDI'ların önlenmesinde sağlık personeline yardımcı olabilir. Bu sistemlerin serbest eczanelerde kullanımı ilacın hastaya verilmesi esnasında yaşanacak olan DDI'ların önlenmesinde oldukça önem taşımaktadır. Anahtar Kelimeler: İlaç etkileşimi, bilgisayarlı ilaç etkileşimi kontrol programı, advers ilaç reaksiyonları Introduction: Drug-drug interactions (DDI) due to multiple drug use are the most important cause of adverse drug reactions. DDIs are among medication errors that can be prevented. The integrated computerized drug interaction checker programs, which medical professionals use in addition to their medical and practical knowledge, can help medical staff to reduce potential DDIs (PDDIs), although they are not sufficient alone. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of computerized drug interaction checker programs in the identification and prevention of PDDIs in clarithromycin prescribed pediatric outpatients. Methods: The study was a retrospective observational prescription analysis held in three community pharmacies operating in the province of Üsküdar-İstanbul during 12-month period. The prescriptions with oral clarithromycin medication were selected and PDDIs were analyzed using the ...
The emergence of health informatics opens new opportunities and doors for different disease diagnoses. The current work proposed the implementation of five different stand-alone techniques coupled with four different novel hybridized paradigms for the clinical prediction of hepatitis C status among patients, using both sociodemographic and clinical input variables. Both the visualized and quantitative performances of the stand-alone algorithms present the capability of the Gaussian process regression (GPR), Generalized neural network (GRNN), and Interactive linear regression (ILR) over the Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) models. Hence, due to the lower performance of the stand-alone algorithms at a certain point, four different novel hybrid data intelligent algorithms were proposed, including: interactive linear regression-Gaussian process regression (ILR-GPR), interactive linear regression-generalized neural network (ILR-GRNN), interactive linear regression-Support Vector Regression (ILR-SVR), and interactive linear regression-adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ILR-ANFIS), to boost the prediction accuracy of the stand-alone techniques in the clinical prediction of hepatitis C among patients. Based on the quantitative prediction skills presented by the novel hybridized paradigms, the proposed techniques were able to enhance the performance efficiency of the single paradigms up to 44% and 45% in the calibration and validation phases, respectively.
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