contraindications
| Subheading | contraindications |
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| Record Type | Q |
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| Entry Version | CONTRA |
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| Abbreviation | CT |
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| Scope Note | Used with drugs, chemicals, and biological and physical agents in any disease or physical state that might render their use improper, undesirable, or inadvisable. Used also with contraindicated diagnostic, therapeutic, prophylactic, anesthetic, surgical or other procedures. |
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| Annotation | subhead only; with substances or physical agents possibly rendering their use improper, undesirable, or inadvisable in the presence of existing conditions & with contraindicated procedures; see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.19; DF: /contra or /CT |
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| Online Note | search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/CT or CT (SH) or SUBS APPLY CT |
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| History Note | 91; used with Category D1-7, D9-26, E1 & E3-4 1991; D & E 1992 forward |
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| Entry Term | counterindications |
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| Date of Entry | 19900507 |
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| Revision Date | 20030722 |
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| Date Established | 19910101 |
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| Unique ID | Q000744 |
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