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Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 24
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 24
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Ziconotide is the drug they were going to use as the trial for my pump. The difficulty was there is no accepted trial procedure for Ziconotide, and if it was used as as a first line it would have required a intrathecal trial for 5 - 7 days. So from my Doctor's practical point of view, it is necessary to do the usual 48 hour trial with Hydromorphone to determine efficacy and then add Ziconotide after implantation and titrate up while keeping the opioid at a reasonably low level.
This was the plan anyway...
Last edited by jllenrad; 03-26-2007 at 08:56 PM.
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