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Originally Posted by 46zilzal
One of the standard residency questions regarding one's understanding of the proper use of pharmaceuticals involves this scenario:
Patient is vomiting uncontrollably and almost in seizure due to electrolyte loss
Due to this wild moving, both oral and parentral pathways to medicate the situation are NOT available.
How would you medicate the nausea? electrolyte loss
Phenergan suppositories.. Huge absorptive surface of the colon available without danger of damage from injection of loss of medication down the throat and possibly in the lungs.
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I'm pretty sure it's for a different reason in Seattle. Or, are you just trying (unsuccessfully) to impress us?
