drug challenge

The administration of a drug suspected of causing an adverse drug reaction to assess culpability. Drug challenges are used to detect aspirin sensitivity, and identify adverse reactions to contrast media, and local anaesthetics

drug challenge

The administration of a drug suspected of causing an adverse drug reaction, to assess culpability; DCs are used to detect aspirin sensitivity, and identify adverse reactions to contrast media and local anesthetics

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Placing the V1 and V2 leads in the second intercostal spaces raises the specificity of ECG for exposing the BrS pattern, especially during a drug challenge [8].

Optimal management of Brugada syndrome

In a statement, Michael Botticelli, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said the administration's emphasis on "the national drug challenge as both a public health and public safety issue" is based on viewing drug addiction as "a chronic disease of the brain that can be successfully prevented and treated, and from which one can recover."

Federal plan emphasizes heroin/opioid treatment

We considered provocation test confirming the causative drug, but we thought that drug challenge could aggravate the lung injury.

Isoniazid and Pulmonary Fibrosis

The challenge phase included saline challenge and drug challenge. In saline challenge, the animals were tested in the test chamber for 15 min, immediately after saline administration.

Effect of ASF (a compound of traditional Chinese medicine) on behavioral sensitization induced by ethanol and conditioned place preference in mice

The idea of drug challenge is to identify the drug responsible for the reaction.

Management of rash in a patient on TB treatment and antiretrovirals

The drug challenge is enormous, and the underlying threat is real.

Whatever happened to the "war on drugs"?

But if we were to name the most serious drug challenge of the past 10 years, especially in Oregon, it would have to be methamphetamine.

Meth challenge unlike any other drug crisis

At each drug challenge session, participants reported on subjective effects of the drug, including euphoria, anxiety, and "feel drug," Dr.

Possible predictor of stimulant abuse identified

Investigators may study responsivity to acute drug challenge, including the examination of how physiological, motivational, or subjective responses to drugs of abuse are influenced by cognitive and emotional variables (e.g., expectancy, affective state, emotional context).

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

In a country where the average citizen is conditioned not to protest, for fear of reprisal, public recognition of the drug challenge is itself an advance--not so much as an inroad against corruption, which Colombians have always taken for granted, but as a warning to the crooks that there is a limit to society's tolerance of crime.

The minister who had to die: Colombia's drug war

Full-course drug challenge test in the diagnosis of delayed allergic reactions to penicillin.

Epidemiology of hypersensitivity reactions to penicillin in Slovenia

"We're grateful to the LPGA fans of Sacramento for making the Longs Drug Challenge such a great event," says Longs chairman, president and chief executive officer Warren Bryant.