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Breaking the Codeine

Fatal Forty DDI: codeine, quinidine, CYP2D6

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A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions

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Abstract

This case discusses the pharmacokinetic interaction between codeine and quinidine. Codeine is a prodrug, metabolized to the active compound morphine by CYP2D6, quinidine is a 2D6 inhibitor.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Clint Christensen MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Nathan G. Orgain MD

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

    Randal O. Dull MD, PhD

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Editors and Affiliations

  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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Christensen, C., Orgain, N.G., Dull, R.O. (2015). Breaking the Codeine. 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_59

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