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However, double-checking is recommended. this app is a repository built from over 35,000 published bibliographic references (mainly indexed in PubMed) individually reviewed and rearranged by causative drugs (n>1,500) including chemicals and substances of abuse, be they administered buccally, parenterally, topically or via inhalation (e. g. e-cigarettes, vaping, inhalants, gases), and by patterns of respiratory involvement (n>650).  In any patient, particularly when severe respiratory failure, ARDS or acute asthma is present, survey of exposure to drugs, substances, and/or chemicals must be done carefully with patient, family, health professionals, and/or pharmacy. This can be life-saving.  Please rate the likelihood for drug causality in every case, using the ‘Diagnosing DIRD’ prompt/button and the Naranjo scale to decide whether to withdraw or prudently continue the drug.  If a drug reaction is listed in this app, this does not equate diagnosis in the patient.  Where in doubt, consider double-checking PubMed, your affiliated Safety for Medicines Department/Agency and the Pharmacovigilance Department of drug companies.  You may access this app by drug names (International Nonproprietary Names or INN, alphabetical) or patterns grouped by families.  Please examine what INN are exactly contained in any suspected proprietary drug, including excipients.  this app is an aid to the investigation and diagnosis of respiratory and cardiac diseases/reactions suspected of being drug-induced/iatrogenic.  If needed, ask your treating Doctor. this app is designed to provide information and bibliography more quickly and extensively than a manual search on conventional databases may do.  There may be unpublished reports, or you may be seeing the first case, or we may have missed some information. this app cannot be held responsible in such situations.  Early sampling of body fluids for drug and metabolites is indicated when appropriate shortly upon admission, particularly in the severely ill.  Ultimately, exact diagnosis and causality assessment remain full users’ responsibility.  Conversely, lack of description in the literature or in this app does not rule out the diagnosis.  They may host more/undisclosed useful information compared to literature.  Patients should be reassured and realize that such incidents are rare.  You may contact this app 24/7 through the contact window. this app V2.