How should you advise this patient and manage her medications? What was the process you went through to assess her current medications and to recommend an updated regimen?
1. How should you advise this patient and manage her medications? Would review her medical history in conjunction to how it will affect her with a pregnancy. My first advice would be to take her of her Lisinopril. This ace inhibitor can cause problems to the fetus and possibly death. Change Lisinopril to Methyldopa, labetalol, hydralazine, and if using a calcium channel blocker use an extended release for example Procardia XL ("Anti-Hypertensive Medicine," n.d.). Secondly, will also discontinue rosuvastatin, according to Lexicomp it is more beneficial to stop it than
1. How should you advise this patient and manage her medications? Would review her medical history in conjunction to how it will affect her with a pregnancy. My first advice would be to take her of her Lisinopril. This ace inhibitor can cause problems to the fetus and possibly death. Change Lisinopril to Methyldopa, labetalol, hydralazine, and if using a calcium channel blocker use an extended release for example Procardia XL ("Anti-Hypertensive Medicine," n.d.). Secondly, will also discontinue rosuvastatin, according to Lexicomp it is more beneficial to stop it than