There is a potentially dangerous situation that invites serious medication errors between opium tincture (deodorized) and paregoric (camphorated tincture of opium). Paregoric is camphorated tincture of opium. Paregoric has just 0.4mg/mL of morphine while opium tincture contains 10mg/mL – a 25-fold difference.
IMSP has issued a medication safety alert. Please follow the following two links:
http://www.ismp.org/hazardalerts/recruting.asp
http://www.pharmacytimes.com/article.cfm?ID=492
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Opium Tincture and Paregoric
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