Syringe Driver Survey Database migration to MedicinesComplete - January 2023

Syringe Driver Survey Database has moved to MedicinesComplete and is no longer available on palliativedrugs.com.

It has been renamed to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database and is now accessed through Drug Compatibility Checker.

Drug Compatibility Checker, through MedicinesComplete is a new tool providing essential compatibility knowledge to support the administration of injectable drugs combining published data and clinical practice reports.

Find out more about Drug Compatibility Checker:https://about.medicinescomplete.com/publication/drug-compatibility-checker/

If you have a subscription to Palliative Care Formulary through MedicinesComplete, you will have access to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database through Drug Compatibility Checker, at no charge through 2023. 

To contribute to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database please continue to submit a clinical practice report using palliativedrugs.com here: https://www.palliativedrugs.com/syringe-driver-database.html

To learn more about a subscription to the Palliative Care Formulary through MedicinesComplete, please contact us here: https://info.medicinescomplete.com/sales

If you have any questions regarding access to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database or would like to renew your subscription to Palliative Care Formulary, please contact pharmpress-support@rpharms.com.

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Topical miconazole interaction with warfarin

16th June 2016

MHRA have highlighted the risk of serious bleeding events in patients taking warfarin and using topical miconazole. This includes the creams, ointment, powder or oral gel formulation of miconazole. The potential for a drug interaction between oral miconazole and warfarin is well documented and is understood to be due to miconazole inhibiting the CYP2C9 enzyme involved in the metabolism of warfarin. However, due to a large number of reports of potential drug interactions involving topical miconazole (particularly the oral gel formulation) and warfarin, the MHRA are now reviewing whether further measures are needed to minimise the risks to patients. In the meantime, their advice is to carefully monitor the anticoagulant effect and reduce the dose of warfarin if necessary. As some topical formulations of miconazole are available without prescription, patients taking warfarin should be warned not to use topical miconazole without consulting their doctor.

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