Routes of drug administration play a major role in a medical treatment. Selecting a right route of drug administration by a physician improves patients’ health.

There are many routes of administration for drugs, including oral, nasal, and intravenous. Each route has its own benefits and risks.

A review in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy examined the literature on alternative routes of administration for antipsychotic and antidepressant medications via inhaled, intranasal, buccal ...

In patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the effectiveness of drugs such as epinephrine is highly time-dependent. An intraosseous route of drug administration may enable more rapid drug adm ...

Administration routes are based on the medication used, how quickly it needs to be absorbed, and the part of the body where the medication needs to have an effect. Your healthcare provider or ...

The effects of dose, route of administration, drug scheduling and MDR-1 gene transfer on the genotoxicity of etoposide in bone marrow SD Turner, JA Rafferty, LJ Fairbairn, J Ashby, H Tinwell, H-G ...

The choice between oral and parenteral administration of drugs that are effective by either route is usually made on the basis of expediency. In general, oral therapy is used when it is well tolera ...

The seven rights of medication administration protect patients and health care providers alike.

Since the enteral route is increasingly used as a means of medication administration, health care providers need to be cognizant of the potential complications and limitations associated with this ...

Intraosseous vascular access for the administration of epinephrine during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest wasn't better than going for the veins first, two separate randomized trials showed. In the ...