COVID-19

Antihistamines A common Contributor In Opioid Overdose Deaths?

A recent analysis by the CDC and published in Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Reports has shown that antihistamines play a role in the growing drug overdose crisis. Of the total US drug overdose deaths reported to the CDC from 2019 to 2020, 13,574 (14.79%) involved antihistamine positivity. First-generation H1 subtype antihistamines, such as diphenhydramine, made …

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Office Based Anesthesia Guidelines Should Be Reviewed – Recent Thailand COVID Vaccine Study

The extension of the Emergency Use Authorization of COVID mRNA “vaccines” into the young adult/adolescent population has demonstrated – especially in male patients – an association of cardiac abnormalities namely perimyocarditis. I have been concerned about myocarditis as a risk factor for outpatient anesthesia – especially in oral surgery – since the demographic in question …

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Analgesia & COVID Vaccination

NSAIDS May Impair Host Defenses The preference for the use of non-opioid analgesics for pain should now be obvious.   However as the option of public COVID-19 vaccination is now widely available in many states, practitioners should be cautioned about the routine use of NSAIDS for pain relief where their treatment may overlap a patient’s vaccination window.(1) NSAIDs inhibit cyclooxygenase (COX) which plays a …

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