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GP Urgent Care Clinic 01 January 0001 GP Urgent Care Clinics are a large network of GP practices within the Perth metropolitan area and the Bunbury region that can provide GP urgent care services to patients so they receive the most appropriate care without the need to attend an emergency department. Find out more about GP Urgent Care Clinics.
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Sweet success - making a bitter pill easier to swallow 01 January 0001 Researchers from Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) have successfully trialled a new approach to the problem of convincing reluctant young patients to swallow bitter-tasting medication before their surgery. The team conducted a clinical trial over a 28-month period to assess the taste, tolerability and absorption rates of the chocolate-tasting, chewable tramadol compared to an oral liquid formulation based on tramadol capsules. Tramadol is an opioid pain medication that can be prescribed to treat postoperative pain in children. The children who participated in the trial were given the novel chewable tramadol tablet or oral tramadol liquid before anaesthetic was administered. Led by PCH Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist and Chair of Paediatric Anaesthesia at UWA Professor Britta von Ungern-Sternberg and UWA Professor of Pharmaceutics Lee Y...
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22/06/2021