Avoidance of drug errors between hospital and home

Mrs Smith, aged 47, is discharged from hospital following abdominal surgery for advanced bowel cancer. Her discharge medications include: Co-codamol 30/500 mg tablets, 2 tablets QDS as required..

Avoidance of drug errors between hospital and home: answers

a. Assuming Mrs. Smith takes the maximum dose of 8 tablets in any 24-hr period, how many tablets need to be prescribed to ensure she has sufficient pain relief for 2 weeks? .

Calculation Skills: keeping it simple

Try the following drug calculations and remember that Sir Isaac Newton [1643-1727] once said ‘Truth [the answer] is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of...

Calculation Skills: keeping it simple - answers

Drug A is available in 250 microgram tablets. Your patient requires 2 mg twice daily. How many tablets will the patient require each day? .

Prescribing emollients

Complete the table (Table 2) with the quantity of emollient to prescribe for eczema for one month .

Prescribing emollients: answers

Complete the table (Table 2, page 484) with the quantity of emollient to prescribe for eczema for one month..

Shelf lives of medication

What is the rate (in micrograms per day) that a tablet will lose active ingredient, as it degrades? .

Shelf lives of medication (answers)

What is the rate (in micrograms per day) that a tablet will lose active ingredient, as it degrades? .

Remote prescribing

James is 65 years old and currently shielding. You have managed this patient for many years in primary care and know his condition and treatment regime well. You undertake a telephone consultation...

Electronic repeat dispensing

Electronic repeat dispensing (ANSWERS)

Alternate uses for pancreatic hormones

Calculate their exposure to propranolol in mg/kg. .