Therapeutic Intranasal Drug Delivery

Needleless treatment options for medical problems

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• Concepts:

  Overview
• Off-Label-Use
• Anatomy-Physiology
• Delivery-Techniques

• Clinical-Uses:

• Seizure-Therapy
• Pain-Control
• Sedation
• Opiate-Overdose
• Epistaxis
• Topical-Anesthetics
• Hypoglycemia
• Miscellaneous

• Education:

• Protocols
• Teaching
• Peer Reviewed Articles
• Home IN therapy
• Bibliography
• Links

 

 

 

 

Informational Links Related to Intranasal medication delivery

CONTACT INFORMATION  for specific questions not addressed on this web site:

E-mail address -  info@intranasal.net

INTERNET DISCUSSIONS regarding IN therapy

Pain discussions

• Intranasal fentanyl relieves breakthrough cancer pain
• Intranasal fentanyl reduces pain due to pediatric long bone fractures

EMS links of interest

• A Call for Widespread Application of Intranasal Medication Delivery in the Prehospital Environment
• Seizure case treated with Intranasal midazolam by parents with EMS in attendance
  
• Australian Lay public education regarding treating seizures, calling 911 and using intranasal midazolam  (PDF 0.2 MB)
• New South Wales EMS protocol for pediatric seizures (PDF 0.17 MB)

POSTED INTERNET ARTICLES (to go to peer reviewed articles for more PDF and web linked articles - click here)

Pain Articles

• Fitzgibbon, Nasal morphine for breakthrough pain, Pain 2003

Seizure articles

• Lahat, IN midazolam vs IV diazepam for pediatric seizures, BMJ 2000

Topical anesthetic articles

• A guidance for the use of topical anesthetics for nasal/oropharyngeal and laryngotracheal procedures

Pediatric reviews

• Intranasal drug delivery in Children - by Ran Goldman, MD

INTRANASAL DRUG DELIVERY ABSTRACT REVIEWS

• References for incident pain and incident dyspnea protocol

INTERNET PROTOCOLS

• Intranasal diamorphine dosing table
• Palliative care incident pain and dyspnea protocol
• Sunshine Hospital emergency Department Pediatric IN fentanyl protocol

OTHER SITES OF INTEREST

• Everest ER (Medical care in extreme mountain environment - including IN medications due to difficulty with IV access and safety)

 

 

 

 

 

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