Medication Safety Issues
Sound-alike/look-alike issues:
Deferoxamine may be confused with cefuroxime, deferasirox, deferiprone
Desferal may be confused with desflurane, Desyrel, Dexferrum
International issues:
Desferal [US, Canada, and multiple international markets] may be confused with Deseril brand name for methysergide [Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, Netherlands]; Disophrol brand name for dexbrompheniramine and pseudoephedrine [Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey]
