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Opioid overdose and naloxone

“While naloxone is a prescription-only medicine (POM), exemptions have been developing over the years, owing to its potential to save lives” .

Christmas quiz!

Calculating dosage where the dose is expressed as mg/kg uses multiplication skills – this is similar to calculating the cooking time of turkey in minutes per kg. For example, a turkey requires a...

A–Z of prescribing for children

Pharmacogenomics looks at how a person's genetic make-up can affect how a body responds to medications and focuses on combining knowledge on pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and genetics. The genetics...

Medicines management activity of advanced practice dietitians and therapeutic radiographers

A rapid review, a streamlined approach to synthesising evidence (Khangura et al, 2012), was registered with Figshare (Peacock et al, 2021) and a narrative synthesis of evidence published between...

Christmas quiz! answers

Calculating dosage where the dose is expressed as mg/kg uses multiplication skills – this is similar to calculating the cooking time of turkey in minutes per kg. For example, a turkey requires a...

What does the budget mean for the NHS?

On Wednesday 30 October, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered the new government's Autumn budget. It was a milestone in many ways, as this was the first budget from a Labour government since the...

Drug Breakdown: ACAMPROSATE

In addition to the tweets, read the BNF monograph on acamprosate and the related treatment summaries for alcohol dependency. Another useful source is the Summary of Product Characteristics for...

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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved eplontersen (Wainzua) to treat adults with polyneuropathy associated with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv)....

Prescribing in frailty

This article, published in the Journal of American Directors Association, sought to demonstrate the potential impact of a pharmacist-led application of STOPPFrail criteria on reducing potentially...

Assessing cardiac chest pain in prescribing practice

There are two broad stages of myocardial ischaemia: the first being stable angina; and the second being acute coronary syndromes, which include unstable angina and myocardial infarction (Paine, 2024).

Use of supplementary infusions to optimise glucose delivery rates

What is the glucose delivery rate in mg/kg/min that is currently required by this patient from the 20% glucose?

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