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A fatality after antipyrine administration
Author(s) -
Travers Anne F
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1038/clpt.1991.87
Subject(s) - clinical pharmacology , medicine , administration (probate law) , case fatality rate , pharmacology , intensive care medicine , anesthesia , political science , law , epidemiology
An 87‐year‐old woman died after the administration of an intravenous injection of antipyrine during the course of an investigation of the efficacy of oxerutins in venous ulceration. This is believed to be the first such fatality. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (1991) 49 , 695–696; doi: 10.1038/clpt.1991.87