Meperidine Pharmacology Podcast

Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals · Nov 30, 2023 · 14m

On this podcast episode, I discuss meperidine pharmacology, adverse effects, pharmacokinetics, drug interactions, and much more!

Meperidine is an opioid that is seldom used due to neurotoxicity. I describe how this can happen in this podcast episode.

Meperidine has numerous drug interactions and using a CYP3A4 inhibitor may increase the risk for toxicity.

Seizures are a risk with meperidine due to its neurotoxic metabolite normeperidine. I discuss this further in this podcast episode.

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