Bupivacaine Hydrochloride and Eolarix

• Generic Name: bupivacaine
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Marcaine HCl, Marcaine Spinal, Sensorcaine, Sensorcaine-MPF, Sensorcaine-MPF Spinal, Bupivacaine Fisiopharma, Bupivacaine Spinal, Marcaine, Marcaine Preservative Free, P-Care M, ReadySharp Bupivacaine

Local or regional anesthesia or analgesia in surgical, obstetrical, dental, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures.

Available as conventional bupivacaine hydrochloride preparations with or without epinephrine or as a liposomal injection containing bupivacaine in an aqueous suspension of multivesicular liposomes (Exparel).

Conventional preparations are used for local infiltration and nerve block techniques including peripheral, sympathetic, epidural (including caudal), retrobulbar, and dental block. Do not use 0.75% concentration for obstetrical anesthesia. (See Boxed Warning.) A hyperbaric solution containing 0.75% bupivacaine hydrochloride in 8.25% dextrose is used for spinal anesthesia.

Liposomal bupivacaine (Exparel) is used for local infiltration or interscalene brachial plexus nerve block to provide postsurgical analgesia; safety and efficacy not established for other nerve blocks. Because of possible differences in physiochemical and functional properties, do not use liposomal bupivacaine interchangeably with other bupivacaine-containing preparations.

Local anesthetics should be used as a component of multimodal analgesia (i.e., simultaneous use of a combination of analgesic drugs and techniques that target different mechanisms) in the management of postoperative pain.

Studies comparing relative efficacy of liposomal bupivacaine and conventional bupivacaine hydrochloride for postsurgical analgesia have shown variable results.

Do not use for obstetric paracervical block.

• Generic Name: measles virus vaccine / rubella virus vaccine
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names:

Measles and rubella virus vaccine live is an active immunizing agent used to prevent infection by the measles and rubella viruses. It works by causing your body to produce its own protection (antibodies) against the viruses.

Measles (also known as coughing measles, hard measles, morbilli, red measles, rubeola, and 10-day measles) is an infection that is easily spread from one person to another. Infection with measles can cause serious problems, such as pneumonia, ear infections, sinus problems, convulsions (seizures), brain damage, and possibly death. The risk of serious complications and death is greater for adults and infants than for children and teenagers.

Rubella (also known as German measles) is a serious infection that causes miscarriages, stillbirths, or birth defects in unborn babies when pregnant women get the disease.

While immunization against measles and rubella is recommended for all persons 12 months of age and older, it is especially important for women of childbearing age and persons traveling outside the U.S.

If measles and rubella vaccine is to be given to a child, the child should be at least 12 months of age. This is to make sure the measles vaccine is effective. In a younger child, antibodies from the mother may prevent the vaccine from working.

This vaccine should be administered only by or under the supervision of your doctor or other health care professional.