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The “Fatal Forty”

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A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions

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This chapter discusses the “Fatal Forty.” These forty drugs or drug classes are involved in drug–drug interactions that are the basis for this book and are “must know” for the perioperative clinician.

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    The term “Fatal Forty” is merely a catchy alliteration that is used for educational purposes only! Use of this term is in no way intended to suggest or imply that appropriate use of any of so-cited medication would prove likely or immediately fatal.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Neil B. Sandson MD

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Neil B. Sandson MD

  3. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Michael P. Hutchens MD

  4. Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    F. Jacob Seagull PhD

  5. Anesthesia Services Department, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center,, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Catherine Marcucci MD

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Correspondence to Neil B. Sandson MD .

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  1. Anesthesia Services Department, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Med Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Catherine Marcucci MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Michael P. Hutchens MD

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Erica D. Wittwer MD, PhD , Toby N. Weingarten MD , Juraj Sprung MD, PhD  & Wayne T. Nicholson MD, PharmD, MSc , ,  & 

  4. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Kirk Lalwani MD

  5. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Med Liliane S. Kaufmann Building, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    David G. Metro MD

  6. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Randal O. Dull MD, PhD

  7. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Christopher E. Swide MD

  8. Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    F. Jacob Seagull PhD

  9. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Portland, OR, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch MD (Professor and Chair) (Professor and Chair)

  10. Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland Medical System VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Neil B. Sandson MD

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Sandson, N.B., Hutchens, M.P., Seagull, F.J., Marcucci, C. (2015). The “Fatal Forty”. In: Marcucci, C., et al. A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7495-1_15

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