Therapeutic
Intranasal Drug DeliveryWhy you should consider intranasal drug administration as another option for delivering medications to patients:
Acute seizures,
status epilepsy, heroin and narcotic overdose, insulin induced
hypoglycemia, procedural sedation, and acute and chronic pain control
are all complex medical problems requiring multiple approaches for
effective management. Intranasal drug delivery is emerging as a
low-tech, inexpensive and non-invasive first line method for managing
selected patients with these and other medical problems.
Nasal medication delivery takes a middle path between slow onset
oral medications and invasive, highly skilled delivery of intravenous
medications. Because the nasal mucosa is highly vascularized, delivery
of a thin layer of medication across a broad surface area can result in
rapid transmucosal absorption of the medication into the blood stream
and cerebral spinal fluid. This results in therapeutic drug levels and
effective treatment of seizures, pain, anxiety, hypoglycemia, opiate
overdose, epistaxis (bloody noses), etc without the need to give a shot
or a pill. Because intra-nasal medication delivery is effective using
generic medications, it is quite inexpensive, an advantage in this era
of increasingly expensive medical technology. This web site provides
information in the form of medical research, expert testimonial opinion
and protocol suggestions to health care providers and consumers
regarding this emerging method of drug delivery.