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12988 and the Department states that the rule is intended to have preemptive effect with respect to any state or local laws, regulations or policies which conflict with its provisions, or which would otherwise impede its full implementation.
The supplementary information published with the Final Rule clearly states the preemptive effect to be given to the rule; what, if any, retroactive effect its provisions may have; and the administrative procedures to be followed prior to any judicial challenge to provisions of the rule.
The efficacy of rofecoxib in these five classical clinical analgesic assays is in contrast to two randomized comparisons of rofecoxib with placebo when given before the operation in adults [ 36 ] and children [ 37 ] . The methodological difficulties and lack of effect of preemptive analgesia have been pointed out previously [ 38 39 ] . In these two trials additional difficulties were the large between-individual variation in morphine consumption in adults [ 36 ] , and the use of a novel (unlicensed) syrup formulation of rofecoxib in children [ 37 ] . Lack of a demonstrable analgesic effect in preemptive studies does not negate a substantial postoperative effect when patients both have pain and can swallow.
preemptory (either peremptory or preemptive, the context did not reveal which) Alexander Haig, MacNeil/Lehrer 19 December 1994
It has a predatory cousin, the Preemptive Strike.”