When doing say a clinical test, how long should be made if a subject is being tested on a chemical such that we increase the dose by 3x until we see effects?
The object of this test is to establish how much of a given chemical if at all it takes to have an effect on the body.
But a curtian amount of recovery time is needed to watch for withdrawl symptoms?
CREED
2007-07-27 07:03:43 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
no need to wait. dose them and if there's no effect, give more. that's called titration. creed.
2007-07-28 08:56:40 · answer #1 · answered by belfus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drug studies are done first on laboratory animals according to what effects are hoped for or predicted by chemical tests. Drug studies need to be done scientifically with a control group and the administrators of the tests must be double blinded from the results so they cannot accidentally affect the outcome of the tests..
All clinical tests are anecdotal and cannot be relied on as true science. They represent only the subjective opinions of the clinicians.
Addiction is usually predicted but sometimes shows up later in clinical study after the drug is approved.
2007-07-28 09:37:19 · answer #2 · answered by Long Tooth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋