Drugs Associated with Fatal Cutaneous Reactions: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
Department
Biological Sciences
Major
Electrical Engineering
Research Advisor
Stanley, R. Joe
Advisor's Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Funding Source
Missouri S&T Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experiences (OURE) Fellows Program; DERMVIS Research Group
Abstract
Drug reactions account for at least 7% of all hospital admissions worldwide. With insufficient records being submitted by physicians, especially in the US, reactions are not well known. For those records that are submitted to the FDA, the current drug reactions database Adverse Events Reporting System (AERS), MedWatch, is very hard to access by physicians. Writing a PERL code to convert AERS data text files into an Access Database will allow for records to be trended at a much greater rate, along with the printing of html outputs for selected drugs and criteria. For four selected drugs, 47.78% of the records were missing at least one piece of information, leading to an inability to trend the data due to lack of information. This is a common theme that goes along with the lack of access for US physicians to understand drug reactions.
Biography
Thomas McKinnon is a senior at Missouri S&T majoring in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Psychology. This is McKinnon’s second year working the DERMVIS group, as he participated in OURE Research during the 2008-2009 school year working on the Automatic Detection of Blue Gray Ovoids In Skin Lesion Images. Along with working with the DERMVIS, McKinnon is active on campus as a student-assistant for the Miner’s Men’s Basketball Team, founding president of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the INROADS Ambassador on Campus. McKinnon will graduate in May, 2010, and has accepted a job with Sprint/Nextel, whom he has completed four internships with, in Maitland, FL as a Network Engineer.
Research Category
Engineering
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Document Type
Presentation
Location
Gasconade Room
Presentation Date
07 Apr 2010, 10:30 am - 11:00 am
Drugs Associated with Fatal Cutaneous Reactions: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
Gasconade Room
Drug reactions account for at least 7% of all hospital admissions worldwide. With insufficient records being submitted by physicians, especially in the US, reactions are not well known. For those records that are submitted to the FDA, the current drug reactions database Adverse Events Reporting System (AERS), MedWatch, is very hard to access by physicians. Writing a PERL code to convert AERS data text files into an Access Database will allow for records to be trended at a much greater rate, along with the printing of html outputs for selected drugs and criteria. For four selected drugs, 47.78% of the records were missing at least one piece of information, leading to an inability to trend the data due to lack of information. This is a common theme that goes along with the lack of access for US physicians to understand drug reactions.
Comments
Joint project with John Krumme