Polypharmacy refers to the simultaneous treatment of an illness‚ with two or more medications‚ that share a similar mechanism of action and therapeutic effect. A common reason doctors use this technique is to gain a greater or a more rapid therapeutic effect than achieved with monotherapy. Also‚ the multiple medications prescribed help to treat the wide range of symptoms associated with the mental illness. Polypharmacy in treatment- resistant patients is considered “common practice” in some mental
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Polypharmacy in the Elderly Wendy Randall Nursing Care of Older Adults and Their Families. Nur. 400 Deena S. Gill Dec. 6‚ 2012 Polypharmacy in the Elderly The average lifespan for an American today is about eighty years‚ roughly thirty years longer than it was a century ago. Our quality of life as we age is vastly better as well‚ heavily influenced by new vaccines and better drugs. [ (D ’ Oratzio‚ 2012) ] The likelihood of having at least one chronic disease increases substantially in
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improve quality of life especially to the geriatric health care. Due to their multiple pathologies‚ elderly patients are prescribed with multiple medications that they concomitant use. Increasing number of elderly patients have multiple morbidities. Because of this reason‚ they are treated with a vast array of medications. Polypharmacy‚ a common and important problem related to drug use‚ occurs in the elderly in all populations. Due to their multiple medication intake‚ adverse drug reactions and interactions
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Poly-Pharmacy Polypharmacy refers to the effects of taking multiple medications at the same time to manage coexisting health problems‚ such as diabetes and hypertension. Polypharmacy has become a huge problem with patients being prescribed too many medications by multiple providers. If no one provider knows the entire medication picture of the patient’s there is a risk of drugs badly interacting with one another. Polypharmacy is a problem especially among older adults and has become a common issue
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pain when getting older. Trying to recover their health‚ the elderly consult different doctors and take various pharmaceuticals. Very often they forget the number of the pills they have already taken or decide to take some more‚ if the discomfort does not pass off immediately. In such cases the problem of polyparmacy occurs. Polypharmacy Polypharmacy is defined as an excessive use of unnecessary medications. The research shows that elderly people take more unprescribed medications than prescribed ones
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development is affected due to increase of age and as age increases generally our health deteriorates. The elderly have serious problems as they age such as brittle bones‚ loss of muscle tone and weakened immune system. Health promotion is huge in order for the elderly to be informed on how to prevent illness and disease. Safety Safety is a huge concern with all ages across the life span but elderly are at a higher risk for safety issues. Falls‚ automobile accidents‚ and injures related to burns or fires
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This polypharmacy teaching project has opened my eyes to the difficulty facing individuals who are prescribed multiple medications. Our patient was prescribed nine different drugs‚ however two of those were to be taken twice a day. That adds up to a total of eleven drugs to take daily. Taking eleven pills a day is troubling enough‚ but there also are specific instructions that must be followed for each medication. Some of drugs had the same instructions‚ though others did not. For instance five of
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Annesia Woolery Polypharmacy 3B 1. List as many concerns about this list of drugs in this patient as you can. Mr. Rog is taking too much fish oil. This is not water soluble and can become toxic. Fish oil and omega3 fatty acid capsule is the same and he needs to take just one of them. Too much intake of omega fatty can result in bleeding and hyperglycemia. Vitmine E has no dosage there should be a recommended dosage as this can also build up to a toxic level. This person may have cognitive deficit
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Mylanta suspension‚ 20 ml PRN * Coloxyl 120 mg‚ 1-2 tablets at night Critically discuss this case study in terms of the problematic nature of this patient’s pharmacological management. Your answer should include a discussion of the problems of polypharmacy as it is related to this case study and the assessment/management and educational strategies which could have been implemented to improve the outcome of Mrs A. Introduction In analyzing the case study of Mrs A‚ a number of factors come into play
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Use of multiple medications in the same patients (Polypharmacy) nowadays is a common practice all over the world to treat chronic disorders like diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension. These practices are acceptable to treat single and multiple disorders‚ which occur simultaneously. Polypharmacy sometimes unavoidable. Recently‚ the standard of healthcare in most chronic conditions achieved by given that multiple drug therapy. The comorbidities of diabetes usually contain hypertension‚ dyslipidemia
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