The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7350 p606
21 May 2005

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Split paracetamol suppositories

Researchers show that paracetamol is uniformly distributed in suppositories. However, when anaesthetists split them (to achieve doses for children) a wide range of doses were recorded (Anesthesia and Analgesia 2005;100:1303).