OCTOBER 5, 2018

New Ventilatory Response to Hypercapnia Model Seeks to Evaluate Risk for Respiratory Depression



Vancouver, British Columbia—An experimental model developed by Lynn R. Webster, MD, and his colleagues at PRA Health Sciences may help curb the frequency of life-threatening respiratory depression. Their model, which aims to document the respiratory effects of various drugs either alone or in combination, was piloted in an oxycodone model, with encouraging results.

“We have a crisis of unintentional overdose deaths,” said Dr. Webster, the vice president of Scientific Affairs of