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Premedication

"Premedication" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Premedication" by people in this website by year, and whether "Premedication" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 27 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 1994
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