Syringe Driver Survey Database migration to MedicinesComplete - January 2023

Syringe Driver Survey Database has moved to MedicinesComplete and is no longer available on palliativedrugs.com.

It has been renamed to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database and is now accessed through Drug Compatibility Checker.

Drug Compatibility Checker, through MedicinesComplete is a new tool providing essential compatibility knowledge to support the administration of injectable drugs combining published data and clinical practice reports.

Find out more about Drug Compatibility Checker:https://about.medicinescomplete.com/publication/drug-compatibility-checker/

If you have a subscription to Palliative Care Formulary through MedicinesComplete, you will have access to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database through Drug Compatibility Checker, at no charge through 2023. 

To contribute to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database please continue to submit a clinical practice report using palliativedrugs.com here: https://www.palliativedrugs.com/syringe-driver-database.html

To learn more about a subscription to the Palliative Care Formulary through MedicinesComplete, please contact us here: https://info.medicinescomplete.com/sales

If you have any questions regarding access to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database or would like to renew your subscription to Palliative Care Formulary, please contact pharmpress-support@rpharms.com.

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EMA to review safety of codeine for post-operative pain relief in children

16th October 2012

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started its first safety review of a medicine under the new EU rules on pharmacovigilance. It will consider the safety of codeine-containing medicines when used for post-operative pain relief in children. This has been initiated at the request of the UK MHRA on the basis of recent concerns over an increased risk of morphine toxicity when codeine is given in this setting. In particular, a very small number of cases of rare but fatal or life-threatening respiratory depression have been reported in children who are CYP2D6 ultra-rapid metabolisers and were given codeine after surgical removal of the tonsils or adenoids in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea.

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