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VOIE PARENTERALE [1 record]

Record 1 2023-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Routes of Administration (Pharmacology)
CONT

A parenteral route may be chosen because the patient cannot tolerate oral drugs, cannot swallow, or has a condition that warrants resting the GI [gastrointestinal] tract or keeping it empty. Muscle mass must be sufficient for the volume of a drug given intramuscularly.

OBS

parenteral: Taken into the body or administered in a manner other than through the digestive tract, as by intravenous or intramuscular injection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Voies d'administration (Pharmacologie)
OBS

parentéral : Qui s'administre par une voie autre que la voie digestive, généralement sous la forme d'injection intraveineuse, musculaire, sous-cutanée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vías de administración (Farmacología)
DEF

Administración de fármacos por cualquier vía distinta de la [vía digestiva]. Algunas son mediante la efracción tisular con una inyección que requiere de técnicas asépticas y otras que no la necesitan (tópica en piel y mucosas); las que requieren inyección, a su vez, son de dos tipos, las intravasculares (I.V., I.A., I.C) y las extravasculares (I.M., I.D., S.C., I.R., I.P., I.Pe., I.Ar., etc)

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