A drug interaction occurs when the administration of one drug modifies the clinical effect of another drug that is administered at the same time. This modification can lead to toxicity or an adverse effect, putting the wellbeing of the patient at risk. Therefore, it is important for all health care workers are aware of common adverse drug interactions, and how to minimise them.
Older patients are often prescribed multiple drug regimens for multiple disease states. This increases the risk of adverse drug reactions and interactions. The elderly, through changes in the ageing body, are also more prone to the effects of certain drugs. These factors may also affect patient concordance and can be a risk factor for falls. It is essential therefore that these points are considered when prescribing for the elderly. Repeat medication must also be reviewed more regularly, ensuring that medicines that are not of benefit are discontinued.
There are oral surgical procedures that are part of the broad scope of general dentistry. These include routine oral surgery such as the extraction of teeth, suturing wounds, and biopsying suspicious soft tissue lesions. The ability to suture is one of the essential skills required of anyone planning to perform surgery.Learning to suture in an expert manner requires an understanding of the proper techniques and dedicated practice. The aim of the study is to evaluate the knowledge and awareness on various suturing techniques used in minor oral surgeries among dental students. An online questionnaire was prepared and circulated among the students of dental colleges.The sample size is 100. The data was tabulated and then imported to SPSS software by IBM and the statistical chi square test was done. 91% of the students were aware of the various suturing techniques practiced in dentistry. 47% of the students use simple continuous suturing technique in their practice.When the correlation was done between best suture material and best time for suture removal, P value was 0.000 which was statistically significant. Within the limits of the study, dental students were aware of various suturing techniques used in minor oral surgeries.
Background: As part of tackling polypharmacy, effective medication review and safe deprescribing are key to World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenge. There is little information about whether this occurs consistently in pharmacy and medicine courses in England.
Objective: To create a snapshot of medication review, polypharmacy and deprescribing educational activity in a small number of university courses for medicines, pharmacy and non-medical prescribing.
Method: The authors undertook a pilot scoping exercise by emailing colleagues in schools of pharmacy and medicine across England about course inclusion of medication review and deprescribing. 11 universities, describing 17 programmes, responded (eight undergraduate pharmacy, four undergraduate medicine, four postgraduate medicine, one non-medical prescribing course). Data were categorised as: programme content, tools to support deprescribing, learning outcomes, and future intentions for deprescribing teaching.
Results: The results suggested variation in what was being taught.
Conclusion: In order to address both national and international agenda, the authors suggest that inclusion of training in this area and consistency of curricula are crucial to adequately equipping our future workforce to be fit for purpose.
The root causes of medication error are diverse. They include confusion over similar packaging and labelling, checking errors and misidentification of patients. The main focus of this article is errors that arise from the prescription writing process. It is important that new prescribers adhere to local or national prescription writing standards to ensure that prescriptions are clear, unambiguous and leave no doubt as to the prescriber's intentions.
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