Posted by jerrympls on September 5, 2003, at 0:24:37
In reply to Re: Nardil + Demerol death on Law and Order » jerrympls, posted by Ame Sans Vie on September 5, 2003, at 0:22:04
> Actually, all of the narcotics are potentially dangerous when taken with MAOIs. It's an individual thing, I suppose, and different sources say different things. But when I gathered information on this very subject a few weeks ago from several different sources (the PDR, "Mosby's Drug Guide for Nurses", MedLine, RxList) I pretty much got the impression that opioid anesthetics, fentanyl and meperidine were absolutely contraindicated while on MAOIs, and the others--hydrocodone, oxycodone, dihydrocodeine, codeine, morphine, diamorphine, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, methadone, propoxyphene, and tramadol--are to be used with extreme caution.
WOW. I wonder if my docs knew that?? Thank God I'm stilll alive.
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