As the manager of the Medical Billing and Coding department, you are often in communication with many patients a day. You begin to meet with a patient and notice that she appears to have been crying. When you question this, she explains that she is concerned with what the physician has prescribed for her ailments because she is on constant pain.
She asks you the following questions.
What is the meaning of sustained release on medication bottle?
She used to have a cream, but now has an ointment. What is the difference?
Explain the purposes, advantages, and disadvantages of the different routes of drug administration
I would calm the patient down and tell her I will be happy to explain her questions and help with her concerns. I would tell …show more content…
Patients can be prescribed medications for a variety of reasons such as acute or chronic disease or illnesses. Oral medications are quite frequently prescribed for infections, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol as just a few for examples. Many maintenance drugs are taken by mouth. Maintenance drugs are those drugs taken for a chronic disease such as high blood pressure. The prescriptions may come in different forms such as pills, capsules, tablets, and liquids. Usually medications are processed in the upper gastro intestinal tract (GI) and metabolized in the bloodstream. This is where the disadvantages come in. Medications taken by mouth can have an increased risk of side effects and even adverse reactions. Based on how the medicine is metabolized, it can decrease the amount of drug distribution into the bloodstream. Some foods and other drugs can affect how much and how fast the drug is absorbed. It is important to read the information leaflet received with each prescription one has filled. You should check to see how to correctly take the medicine for it to be most effective. Some medications require one to take with food or with a full stomach, while others say take on an empty stomach, and then some medicines can not be taken together. There are even some medications that are not available for oral …show more content…
Some medications are only used and meant to be injected. The purpose of injections could be due to vaccinations, hormones, or even a very low B-12 level that required clinical intervention, henceforth, a monthly injection at the physicians office. Injections can be given one of three ways depending on the medication being given. Some medications are very thin and some are extremely thick. The three different injections are the intradermal, subcutaneous, and intramuscular. Intradermal injections are barely piercing the epidermis for the absorption of the medication being given. Subcutaneous injections are beneath the epidermis into the dermis. Intramuscular injections must be injected into a muscle. The disadvantages would be an allergic reaction at the injection site and an increased chance of infection from the epidermis being
She asks you the following questions.
What is the meaning of sustained release on medication bottle?
She used to have a cream, but now has an ointment. What is the difference?
Explain the purposes, advantages, and disadvantages of the different routes of drug administration
I would calm the patient down and tell her I will be happy to explain her questions and help with her concerns. I would tell …show more content…
Patients can be prescribed medications for a variety of reasons such as acute or chronic disease or illnesses. Oral medications are quite frequently prescribed for infections, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol as just a few for examples. Many maintenance drugs are taken by mouth. Maintenance drugs are those drugs taken for a chronic disease such as high blood pressure. The prescriptions may come in different forms such as pills, capsules, tablets, and liquids. Usually medications are processed in the upper gastro intestinal tract (GI) and metabolized in the bloodstream. This is where the disadvantages come in. Medications taken by mouth can have an increased risk of side effects and even adverse reactions. Based on how the medicine is metabolized, it can decrease the amount of drug distribution into the bloodstream. Some foods and other drugs can affect how much and how fast the drug is absorbed. It is important to read the information leaflet received with each prescription one has filled. You should check to see how to correctly take the medicine for it to be most effective. Some medications require one to take with food or with a full stomach, while others say take on an empty stomach, and then some medicines can not be taken together. There are even some medications that are not available for oral …show more content…
Some medications are only used and meant to be injected. The purpose of injections could be due to vaccinations, hormones, or even a very low B-12 level that required clinical intervention, henceforth, a monthly injection at the physicians office. Injections can be given one of three ways depending on the medication being given. Some medications are very thin and some are extremely thick. The three different injections are the intradermal, subcutaneous, and intramuscular. Intradermal injections are barely piercing the epidermis for the absorption of the medication being given. Subcutaneous injections are beneath the epidermis into the dermis. Intramuscular injections must be injected into a muscle. The disadvantages would be an allergic reaction at the injection site and an increased chance of infection from the epidermis being