著者

渡邊 美智留 三田 恭平 中村 春世 田中 恒明 三原 潔 小野 秀樹

出版者

一般社団法人日本医療薬学会

雑誌

医療薬学 (ISSN:1346342X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.40, no.12, pp.726-733, 2014-12-10 (Released:2015-12-10)

参考文献数

9

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Pregabalin, a useful drug for neuropathic pain, has a high incidence of dizziness and somnolence as side effects. In the present study, the incidence of both side effects and the risk factors were retrospectively investigated in hospitalized patients who were administered pregabalin after their admission. In 65 patients (median 68 years old), 34 cancer patients and 18 opioid users were included. Items studied were cancer/non-cancer, opioid user/non-user, fall/nonfall, age, sex, weight, daily dose of opioids, the number of the drugs that may cause dizziness and somnolence, daily dose of pregabalin, and the ratio of creatinine clearance to daily dose of pregabalin. Fourteen (21.5%) and 21 (23.3%) patients developed dizziness and somnolence, respectively, and 4 (6.1%) patients developed fall. In the case of opioid combination, 7 (38.9%) and 10 (55.6%) patients developed dizziness and somnolence, respectively. A logistic-regression analysis showed that opioid use is a significant augmenting risk factor for dizziness (P = 0.026) and somnolence (P = 0.016) of pregabalin. The ratios of daily dose of pregabalin to creatinine clearance did not show any relation to the incidence of dizziness and somnolence; both side effects were observed in some patients whose renal functions were normal. It is suggested that attention is necessary to the incidence of dizziness and somnolence regardless of renal function, and that particular attention is required when opioids, which have similar side effects, are combined with pregabalin.

著者

矢野 育子 井関 健 東海林 徹 青山 隆夫 木津 純子 中村 均 藤井 俊志 渡邊 美智留 野田 幸裕 脇屋 義文 森田 邦彦 手嶋 大輔 二神 幸次郎

出版者

一般社団法人日本医療薬学会

雑誌

医療薬学 (ISSN:1346342X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.1, pp.43-49, 2009 (Released:2010-02-07)

参考文献数

8

被引用文献数

1 1

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With the introduction of 6-year pharmacy educational program in 2006,a provision was made to assign pharmacist faculties having working experience as pharmacists in pharmacy schools.In October 2007,we conducted a survey to investigate the situation of pharmacist faculties.We sent a questionnaire to 247 pharmacist faculties in 66 pharmacy schools and the response rate was 84.9%.The faculties consisted of professors (43%),associate professors (23%) and lecturers (23%),and 77% of them had a Ph.D.degree.In a typical week,the major activities they engaged in were educational activities (20.6 hrs),research (12.2 hrs) and management (9.6 hrs).While the average time they were occupied by clinical practice was 3.5 hrs,67% of them did not do any.Half of the faculties did not conduct any research with students or graduate students in their own schools,and in 2007 only 55% applied for Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science and Technology of Japan.Twenty-six percent said they were very satisfied or satisfied with their work on a five-point scale,and 44% rated their degree of satisfaction as fair.In conclusion,our survey showed that most pharmacy faculties are not sufficiently engaged in clinical practice and do not spend much time in clinical research.We hope that its results will promote discussions among pharmacy personnel concerning the role of pharmacist faculties so that even better clinical pharmacy education may be provided to students in pharmacy schools.