Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition

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Drugs that should be administered Intramuscularly ONLY

Generic	Brand
betamethasone sodium phosphate & acetate	Celestone Soluspan
corticotropin zinc hydroxide	Cortrophin Zinc
dexamethosene acetate	Dalalne L.A., etc.
dicyclomine HCl injection	Bentyl
dimercaprol	BAL in Oil
estradiol cypionate (in Oil)	depGynogen, etc
estradiol valerate (in Oil)	Delestrogen, etc.
estrone	Kestrone
fluphenazine decanoate	Prolixin
haloperidol decanoate	Haldol
hydrocortisone acetate	Hydrocortone
hydroxcobalamine, crystalline	Vitamin B12
hydroxyprogesterone caproate (in Oil)	Hylutin
hydroxyzine injection	Vistaril
leuprolide acetate depot	Lupron
medroxyprogesterone acetate	Depo-Provera
methylprednisolone acetate injection	Depo-Medrol, etc.
nandrolone decanoate	Deca-Durabolin, etc.
nandrolene phenpropiate	Durabolin, etc.
penicillin G procaine	Wycillin
peniclling G benzatine	Bicillin L-A, etc.
prednisolone acetate injection	Key-Pred 25 etc.
progesterone injection (in Oil)	Progesterone
rabies vaccine	Imovax
testosterone injection	Many
triamcinolone diacetate	Aristocort, etc.
triamcinolone hexacetonide	Aristospan