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Descriptor English: Premedication
Descriptor Spanish: Premedicación
Descriptor premedicación
Scope note: Administración preliminar de un medicamento que precede a un procedimiento diagnóstico, terapéutico o quirúrgico. Los tipos más comunes de premedicación son antibióticos (PROFILAXIS ANTIBIÓTICA) y agentes ansiolíticos. No incluye la MEDICACIÓN PREANESTÉSICA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pré-Medicação
Descriptor French: Prémédication
Entry term(s): Premedications
Tree number(s): E02.319.703
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011292
Scope note: Preliminary administration of a drug preceding a diagnostic, therapeutic, or surgical procedure. The commonest types of premedication are antibiotics (ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS) and anti-anxiety agents. It does not include PREANESTHETIC MEDICATION.
Annotation: coord IM with specific drug /ther use (IM); includes anti-anxiety medication; does not include antibiotic premedication ( = ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS)
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: specific drug/therapeutic use (1966-1968)
Public MeSH Note: 73
History Note: 73(69)
Related: Antibiotic Prophylaxis MeSH
Preanesthetic Medication MeSH
DeCS ID: 11729
Unique ID: D011292
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Date Established: 1973/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1995/05/31
Premedication - Preferred
Concept UI M0017533
Scope note Preliminary administration of a drug preceding a diagnostic, therapeutic, or surgical procedure. The commonest types of premedication are antibiotics (ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS) and anti-anxiety agents. It does not include PREANESTHETIC MEDICATION.
Preferred term Premedication
Entry term(s) Premedications



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