Publications by authors named "Inmaculada Jimenez-Pulido"
Introduction: Extravasation is a potentially severe complication of intravenous administration of antineoplastic drugs. The limited data makes it difficult to develop an optimal management scheme. The objective of this study is to describe the clinical practice in the extravasation management of antineoplastic agents in Spanish centers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To reach at an expert consensus, using the Delphi method, for classifying the tissue-damaging potential of antineoplastic drugs, in order to facilitate the decision-making process in the event of extravasations.
Method: The panel of expert evaluators was made up of seven pharmacists belonging to the working group on extravasations. Other member served as coordinator.
Objective: This review was prepared to offer the most complete information about the use of ondansetron in parenteral admixtures with other drugs.
Method: The search was done from September 2016 to April 2017 by using electronic databases Stabilis® and Micromedex® solutions, Medline/PubMed and Scholar Google searching publications about ondansetron stability in parenteral infusion when is administered by itself or with other medication.
Results: 49 studies are included with a total of 53 drugs.
Background: Febrile neutropenia is a cause of dose reduction in hematological cancer treatments, with patient risk of infection proportional to duration and severity. In addition, colony-stimulating factors have been shown to be beneficial in a patient subgroup, although they are probably overused in the clinical setting.
Objective: Evaluation of compliance with American Society of Clinical Oncology 2006 criteria when it comes to filgrastim use in the Emergency Department of a Spanish general hospital.