Discussion One
Brenda Doering
PHR209
Andrea Chan
Part 1: Chapter 10 discusses the mechanism of drug interaction and contributing factors. Read Chapter 10 and in your own words explain why surgical patients and patients hospitalized for infections are considered high risk for drug-drug and/or drug-food interactions.
Part 2: Next, find an article in a medical journal or on a drug information website that involves one or more patients experiencing a severe drug interaction. Discuss how the article or research affects patient risk associated with drug-drug and/or drug-food interactions.
The reasons why people having surgery is a high-risk is they have likely had health problems before this. In surgery they have you on ten or more different medications, any of these could cause drug-drug interactions. So, their immune system is down and the best place to catch illnesses in the hospital or doctor’s office. Sometimes they will not do surgery because your immune system is down.
I chose an article that included fifteen patients who had been admitted to an inner-city hospital with an adverse drug reaction were …show more content…
The common factors were anger, isolation, resentment, and blame, especially when medicines had been prescribed acute conditions. The patients that had chronic conditions, it was obviously seen with conditions of a strong network. The patients felt there should have been more communication and information should have been ready for the healthcare facility. Only a minority of patients that were linked the medications had an adverse event though some of them received false reassurances that the drug was not related to their illness which then just created more barriers. The patients were really upset as they were told they were supposed to report their adverse reactions and said it wasn’t their
Brenda Doering
PHR209
Andrea Chan
Part 1: Chapter 10 discusses the mechanism of drug interaction and contributing factors. Read Chapter 10 and in your own words explain why surgical patients and patients hospitalized for infections are considered high risk for drug-drug and/or drug-food interactions.
Part 2: Next, find an article in a medical journal or on a drug information website that involves one or more patients experiencing a severe drug interaction. Discuss how the article or research affects patient risk associated with drug-drug and/or drug-food interactions.
The reasons why people having surgery is a high-risk is they have likely had health problems before this. In surgery they have you on ten or more different medications, any of these could cause drug-drug interactions. So, their immune system is down and the best place to catch illnesses in the hospital or doctor’s office. Sometimes they will not do surgery because your immune system is down.
I chose an article that included fifteen patients who had been admitted to an inner-city hospital with an adverse drug reaction were …show more content…
The common factors were anger, isolation, resentment, and blame, especially when medicines had been prescribed acute conditions. The patients that had chronic conditions, it was obviously seen with conditions of a strong network. The patients felt there should have been more communication and information should have been ready for the healthcare facility. Only a minority of patients that were linked the medications had an adverse event though some of them received false reassurances that the drug was not related to their illness which then just created more barriers. The patients were really upset as they were told they were supposed to report their adverse reactions and said it wasn’t their