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

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.

Medication Administration Considerations With EN If the medications are needed and alternative routes of drug delivery are not options, then the medications may be given through enteral feeding tubes.

How do you think about adherence and persistence and how that is impacted by the different routes of administration? I’ve heard pros and cons for all the different routes.

Sometimes, depending on the nature of the medication itself, that route is determined by the manufacturer so that there can be no controversy about its administration.

Medicines administration is a core responsibility of registered nurses in healthcare settings and is increasingly being undertaken by nursing associates. Before administering any medicine, the person ...

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 ...

In the present study no failures due to inadequate dosage (erythromycin) were found. This suggests that to ensure adequate medication antibiotic administration must continue for at least six days.

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 ...

Inhalation: Inhalation is an ideal administration route due to the large surface area of the lungs, the permeability of vasculature, and rapid absorption. Loxapine is the only psychotropic medication ...