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contraindication

[¦kän·trə‚in·də′kā·shən]
(medicine)
A symptom, indication, or condition in which a remedy or a method of treatment is inadvisable or improper.
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We evaluated the diagnostic equivalence between the reading systems based on (1) the distribution of type of stroke classification, (2) the "ASPECTS [less than or equal to] 6," (3) the detection of the presence of any imaging contraindication to the tPA administration for acute ischemic lesions, (4) the "presence ofHMCA," and (5) the reading time.
PD is suitable for most people, but in some cases contraindications or barriers will be identified during the assessment process.
(1.) Chin-Quee D et al., Women's ability to self-screen for contraindications to combined oral contraceptive pills in Tanzanian drug shops, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2013,123(1):37-41.
TABLE 1: Demographics Hypertension 74.8 (%) Diabetes 61.9 (%) Tobacco use 42 (%) dyslipidemia 59.3 (%) Male 67.1 (%) Female 32.9 (%) Age-20-49 19 (%) 50-69 69.3 (%) 70-99 28.9 (%) TABLE 2: Proportion of Patients Who Received, Had a Contraindication to, and Did Not Receive Each Medication DRUG RECEIVED NOT RECEIVED CONTRAINDICATED no.
According, the behavior of the 300 pharmacist towards proper dispensing of drugs with interactions, medicinal contraindications as well as communication skills seemed very poor.
stated that only 136 (22%) of 625 acute stroke patients ar- rived at the emergency room within two and a half hours of the onset of symptoms.3 Garcia-Monco et al stated that only 16.7% of acute stroke patients presenting to the emergency room in a one year period arrived to hospital within three hours.15 The only contraindication in 95 (44.4%) of the 214 stroke patients was the problem of not being prepared forthe treatment in three hours according to the study of O'Connor et al.16
They similarly found cardiovascular contraindications by either diagnosis or prescription claim data.
The anaesthetic technique outlined by Saeki et al and Batistaki et al are currently only used as alternative in patients with contraindications to succinylcholine.
The court completely rejected Amanda's expert witness' contention that McKesson's failure to instruct hospital personnel, including nurses, regarding the contraindication of the methylene blue dye was in violation of the agreement it had with the hospital.
Terra labor management and outcomes in treated HIV-infected women without contraindications to vaginal delivery and matched controls.
Adults should receive 2 doses of single-antigen Varicella vaccine if not previously vaccinated unless there is a medical contraindication. The doses should be separated by a 4 week interval.
has received US Food and Drug Administration approval of an important label update for Definity Vial for (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension which removes the contraindication statement related to use in patients with a known or suspected cardiac shunt from the US Prescribing Information, the company said.
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