3. Pharmacist vs prescription
• Horizontal
– Route, dosage form, dose, frequency,
duration,
• Vertical
– List of drugs
4. Questions from clinical pharmacist
perspectives
• More than 5 drugs in prescription?
• High risk drugs in prescription?
• Drugs given to very old patients?
• Drugs given to paediatric patient?
• Drugs given to pregnant women?
• Drugs given to renal failure patient?
• Drugs given to hepatic impair patient?
• Adverse drug reaction to patient?
5. More than 5 drugs? polypharmacy
• There is chance of drug interaction
• There is chance of adverse drug reaction
• There is chance of transcribing, dispensing,
administration error
Number of
drugs
Drug
interaction
No drug
interaction Total P value
<5 drugs 55(14.51%) 324 379 0
>5 drugs 85(41.06%) 122 207
6. Highly risk drugs in prescription
Specific High-Alert Drugs:
• Insulin, subcutaneous and intravenous
• Intravenous amiodarone
• Opiates and narcotics
• Injectable potassium chloride (or phosphate) concentrate
• Injectable colchicine
• Intravenous (unfractionated) heparin
• Injectable, low molecular weight heparin
• Sodium chloride solutions above 0.9%
• Intravenous lidocaine
• Injectable magnesium sulphate
• Oral methotrexate, for non-oncologic use
• Injectable nitroprusside, sodium
• Warfarin
Follow patient with these drugs as pharmacist
7. High-Alert Drug Categories:
• IV Adrenergic agonists (i.e., epinephrine)
• IV Adrenergic antagonists (i.e., propranolol)
• Inhaled and IV Anesthetic agents (i.e., propofol)
• Cardioplegic solutions (hypothermic and hyperkalemic solutions administered to the myocardium
during cardiac surgery)
• Chemotherapeutic agents
• Hypertonic Dextrose (20% or greater)
• Dialysis solutions
• Epidural or Intrathecal medications
• Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (i.e., eptifibatide)
• Oral hypoglycemics
• IV Inotropic medications (i.e., digoxin)
• Lipososmal forms of drugs (i.e., liposomal amphotericin B)
• IV Moderate sedation agents (i.e., midazolam)
• Oral Moderate sedation agents for children
• IV/Oral Narcotics/Opiates
• Neuromuscular blocking agents (i.e., succinylcholine)
• IV Radiocontrast agents
• IV Thrombolytic/Fibrinolytics
• Total parenteral nutrition solutions
8. Drugs in elder patient
• Patient pharmacokinetic changes.
• Beers criteria: list of drugs to be used
cautionally in elders
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12. Drugs use in paediatric patient?
Dose calculation
Young rule
• Child dose=adult dose*(age/age+12)
Clark rule
• Child dose=adult dose*(weight(lbs)/150)
BSA methods
• Child dose= adult dose* child BSA/1.7m2
BSA=√(height*weight/3600)
13. Drugs used in renal impair patient?
• Estimate the creatinine clearance
cl Cr (ml/minute) = [140-age] X body weight (Kg)
/7.2 X Ccr (mg/dl)
In case of female, the value is multiplied by 0.85
• Calculate dosage
Dose of renal failure patient* creatinine clearance
=Normal dose*creatinine clearance of normal
• Calculate dosage interval
Dose interval of renal impair patient* creatinine
clearance of normal patient =Normal dose interval
*creatinine clearance of renal impair patient
14. Drugs use in hepatic impair patient?
• Vigil for drugs which impair the hepatocytes.
• Isoniazid, amoxicillin, paracetamol, alcoholic,
diclofinac, etc..etc..
• Give at same dose with prolonged interval
• Give at decreased dose with same interval
15. Adverse drug reaction to patient?
• Assess causality: naranjo, WHO scale
• Assess type : A or B
• Assess severity: Hartwig scale
• Assess preventability: Existing literature
Record history of reaction in patient medication
profile form.