The relief of pain (analgesia) is a primary goal for enhancing the quality of life of patients and for increasing the ability of patients to engage in day to day activities. Codeine, an opioid analgesic, was originally approved in the US in 1950 and is a drug used to decrease pain by increasing the threshold for pain without impairing consciousness or alteri...
Codeine sulfate is a form of this drug that is commonly used. It is available in tablet form and indicated for the relief of mild to moderately severe pain, where the use of an opioid analgesic is appropriate .
The solution form is used by itself or combined in a syrup with other drugs and is used as a cough suppressant in adults aged 18 and above , .
UZ Leuven, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Mehreen Mirza, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Votuporanga, Votuporanga, São Paulo, Brazil
Hospital Universitário São Francisco na Providência de Deus, Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Associação Hospital de Caridade Ijuí - Núcleo de Ensino e Pesquisa, Ijuí, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
Jan Tack, Leuven, Belgium
UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
UZ Leuven Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Universidade de São Paulo (USP) - Refractive surgery department, São Paulo, Brazil
Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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