Discuss your diet with your physician as certain foods or beverages may also interact negatively with iodoquinol. As with any medication, the patient should communicate with their physician about the risks of taking iodoquinol and do these risks outweigh the benefits for their individual
Many people choose Antidepressant medication as a treatment because that is the first thing their doctors suggest. Antidepressant medication may relieve some of your depression symptoms, but it also comes with significant side effects and dangers. What’s more, recent studies have raised questions about their effectiveness. Learning the facts about antidepressants can help you make an educated decision about what’s right for you. Most mental health experts agree that when depression is severe, medication can be helpful, even life saving.
Nonpuerperal and puerperal depression are treated similarly unless the mother is breast-feeding. Data regarding the excretion of antidepressants in breast milk are limited.32 The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs35 concluded that “antidepressants are drugs whose effect on nursing infants is unknown but may be of concern.” Based on some reports, antidepressants considered to have no adverse effects on breast-fed infants (Table 8) may be considered for use in women with postpartum depression. Electroconvulsive therapy may be of value in patients who have severe depression with psychosis and an increased risk of suicide. Some investigators have found that estrogen therapy may be effective in patients with post-partum major depression.38 Double-blind studies are necessary before this therapy can be recommended for general use. Although pharmacotherapies for depression carry some risks, untreated depression may lead to significant problems.
I learned how important it is to assess patients’ pain thoroughly and to identify the site and pain intensity. My patient was previously medicated for abdominal pain with a narcotic because her pain was assumed to be related to the C-section but when the pain lingered; I did an in-depth assessment of the patient’s pain and determined that she was having gas pain and was constipated. The patient was treated with Simethicone and was given a suppository. If this situation arose again, I would be better at assessing the patient’s pain to know the exact site and the intensity. 6.
Traditionally, the geriatric population has existing aliments therefore, if they were to contact the flu it could exacerbate their existing health conditions. According to The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) (2013), a particular health condition that the flu could easily exacerbate in someone who is 65 yrs or older and increase their vulnerability to pneumonia. This patient population is labeled as especially high risk, based on burden of disease. The flu vaccine provides the best protection from the flu and its complications. The flu vaccine also assists in preventing the spreading of the flu from person to
Pharm MOD 1 Discussion – Group 1 During clinical, you are assigned to care for a client receiving morphine IV for control of postoperative pain. The clinical instructor has assigned you to explain the following: A) What are the major differences between narcotic agonists, narcotic agonists-antagonists, and narcotic antagonists? Narcotic agonists are drugs that react with the opioid receptors throughout the body to cause analgesia, sedation, or euphoria. These drugs are highly addictive (p. 408). Narcotic agonists-antagonists react with some opioid receptor sites to stimulate activity and block other opioid receptor sites.
Amitriptyline is an antidepressant. This medication can help with chronic pain as well anxiety that the patient can be having from the state of her current condition. Albuterol is a bronchodilator used as a quick-relief agent. This medication can help with the patient’s
You should avoid taking them while you are on other medications because interactions could occur.”| ____ 7. A patient wants to try acupressure techniques in addition to conventional treatment for headaches and asks, “What is so good about Western medicine anyway?” Which response by the nurse is best? a.|“Western medicine is based on research, which means treatments are more likely to have consistent results.”| b.|“Western medicine uses natural remedies that are less likely to cause long-term side effects.”| c.|“Western medicine has fewer regulations and restrictions, so practitioners are able to choose the best treatments for you.”| d.|“Western medicine is based primarily on nutrition and exercise therapies that are safer than potentially toxic medications.”| ____ 8. The nurse is caring for a patient with advanced cancer who has decided to discontinue chemotherapy treatment and try an alternative therapy that has not been proved effective. The nurse, whose mother recently died of the same type of cancer, strongly disagrees with the patient’s choice.
Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optomizationof health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses; and advocacy in health care for individuals, families, communities and populations. (ANA) Impaired nurses may be not only unable to carry out these professional duties, but may also potentially inflict harm on patients and jeporadise their welfare (violating nurse practice act). The ANA reports that 10% of registered nurses have an alcohol or drug addiction, these statistics correlate with the general population. Nurse’s have easy access to highly addictive controlled substances which may be a risk factor as well as frequent injuries andhigh stress long hours. Impairment means an inability to function at an acceptable level of competenct, or an incapacity to continue to practice with the requisite skill, safety and judgement, as a result of alcohol or chemical dependency, a psychiatric of emotional disorder, senility or a disabling disorder.
By legalizing Marijuana, we can reduce the cost of pharmaceutical development for medicines used to reduce the side effects of cancer treatments. Barry McCaffrey, director of the Office of National Drug Policy, authorized a review of Institute of Medicine (IOM) and discovered that IOM admitted that cannabis had medical value but the standpoint of the IOM offered was that “smoking is too dangerous a mode of drug delivery for cannabis—a conclusion based on an overestimate of the toxicity of marijuana smoke. Among its major recommendations was that patients with "debilitating symptoms (such as intractable pain or vomiting)" be permitted to smoke marijuana only after all conventional treatment options have failed—and then, only for six months and under "an oversight strategy comparable to an institutional review board process." In the end, the question boiled down to how to