Medicated patches

Ferrel TH Jr, Rnssell SA. (2008) Medicated patch for treating bee and wasp Stings, United States Patent 7338673. 

All pharmaceutical products have side effects. Many factors affect an individual s ability to remain on a product. Depending on the safety profile of the products, the proportion of patients who will eventually discontinue the products for safety reason will vary. At times, alternative products were developed for patients who cannot tolerate a commonly prescribed medication. For example, a medication patch may be developed to avoid gastrointestinal-related side effects. When an adverse reaction is serious, researchers will typically investigate patient characteristics to help identify patients who are at a higher risk for the serious adverse reaction. Such investigations, if successful, will lead to useful risk-mitigation strategies. 

Not every cardiac arrest victim is the same. Some men may have a hairy chest that needs to be shaved in order for the pads to adhere to the skin. Some women may have large breasts that need to be lifted to place the pads underneath to prevent interference with the analysis of the heart rhythm. If the victim s chest is wet or has a medication patch on it, remove the patch and wipe off the chest to allow the pads to stick. Some victims may have a pacemaker for their heart, which looks like a bottle-cap-sized lump under the skin by one of their collar bones. Do not put electrode pads on top of the pacemaker instead place them about one inch away from the lump. 

Precautions must be taken when defibrillating a patient with an ICD, a pacemaker, or a transdermal medication patch or a patient who s in contact with water. 

Pefibriiiating a patient with a tranedermai medication patch... 

Avoid placing the defibrillator paddles or pads directly on top of a transdermal medication patch, such as a nitroglycerin, nicotine, analgesic, or hormone replacement patch. The patch can block delivery of energy and cause a small burn to the skin. Remove the medication patch and wipe the area clean before defibrillation. 

Master, n. (medical) plaster pavement, paving patch, -kafer, m. Spanish fiy, blister beetle. 

George TP, Ziedonis DM, Feingold A, et al Nicotine transdermal patch and atypical antipsychotic medications for smoking cessation in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 157 1835-1842, 2000... 

False. Nicotine is a highly addictive drug and the smoking habit can be very difficult to stop. Many people have to resort to medication, such as nicotine patches or gum, to help them stop. The best plan is never to start. 

Polymer coatings responsive to temperature or moisture form the basis for medications delivered transdermally using patches on the skin or internally via inserts implanted in the body. Oral nitroglycerin (Fig. 14.1.4) tablets to prevent... 

The patch is available as a prescription and nonprescription medication. Treatment of 8 weeks or less is as effective as longer treatments. The 16-and 24-hour patches have comparable efficacy. A new patch should be placed on a relatively hairless location each morning. 

At about the same time far to the east in India, physicians were prescribing a strikingly similar regimen for the same condition. Their medication for vitiligo was an infusion of the seeds and roots of a plant known locally as bavachee (Psoralea corylifolia). Patients drank the infusion or applied it directly to their skin. After treatment, Indian patients also exposed their patches of vitiligo to the sun. 

The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) has also adopted some of the apparatus designs (12) described in the USP, with some minor modifications in the specifications. Small but persistent differences between the two have their origin in the fact that the American metal processing industry, unlike the European, uses the imperial rather than the metric system. In the European Pharmacopeia, official dissolution testing apparatus for special dosage forms (medicated chewing gum, transdermal patches) have also been incorporated (Table 2 provides an overview of apparatus in Ph. Eur.). 

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