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018: Premedication with Heidi Shafi
018: Premedication with Heidi Shafi
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Sep 29, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Many, many clinicians routinely order premedication of their patients with acetaminophen and diphenhydramine before transfusion, believing that using those medications will prevent allergic and febrile transfusion reactions, respectively. Maybe not! Dr. Heidi Shafi discusses the available data that says that this practice may not make sense.
Released:
Sep 29, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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