oom should have received amrinone for her low blood pressure, but the hospital gave her amiodarone, which is used to slow an irregular heartbeat, and she died. Mix-ups don't just happen in the pharmacy, but they can even happen while a patient is in the hospital.
             Just to prove that there are many drugs that have similar-sounding names, the Food and Drug Administration had the drug company Searle change the proposed name of a new arthritis drug from Celebra to Celebrex. Celebra was too close to Celexa, an antidepressant, but another problem came up. Celebrex can be mistaken for Cerebyx, a drug for epilepsy. This proves that even if a drug name is changed, there are so many drugs that it still might be confused with another drug.
             When a name for a new drug is proposed, the FDA checks its database for existing drugs with similar names. In the future, the FDA hopes to introduce comput
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