Since James first described in 1959 the placement and use of umbilical artery catheters (UAC), arterial lines have become routine practice in neonatal intensive care units for arterial blood gases and ...

Overview: Transdermal nitroglycerin is an ointment or a patch that is used on the skin to reduce your risk of having chest pain from heart disease. The most common side effects of transdermal ...

Though nitroglycerin has been used as a heart medication for over 100 years, scientists have only just recently started looking at it in the lab In an ironic twist, researchers report that the classic ...

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Emergency departments across the United States are facing a shortage of intravenous nitroglycerin, a drug commonly used to treat heart complications. Here are six alternatives to intravenous ...

For the last month, Nadia Awad, PharmD, and her ED team at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey have struggled with a shortage of nitroglycerin. "IV nitroglycerin is really our workhorse for ...

For more than 130 years, doctors have prescribed nitroglycerin for relief of chest pain without a clear knowledge of how it actually worked. Now, not only have researchers from Howard Hughes Medical ...

Nitroglycerin’s talent for opening blood vessels, now frequently exploited by doctors treating people with angina or heart failure, was first observed in the 1860s when physicians studied side effects ...

Administering nitroglycerin during the course of transradial cardiac catheterization fails to reduce the risk of radial artery occlusion, according to results from the large PATENS trial. Whether ...

Ascanio Sobrero, born on this day in 1812, invented nitroglycerin. He just didn’t see any use for it—even though it became, in the hands of Alfred Nobel—yes, that Nobel—the active ingredient in ...

Overview: Rectal nitroglycerin is an ointment that is used on the skin in your anal region to reduce pain in that area caused by a skin tear. The most common side effect of rectal nitroglycerin is a ...