THE BEDSIDE PHARMACIST⚕

Empirical Pharmacist
Clinical Pharmacist
Stoic

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it becomes soiled with secretions.
If bleeding continues,refer to an ENT specialist for cauterisation or arterial ligation or embolisation.
Xylocaine nasal spray can be used in the place of adrenaline.

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EPISTAXIS:This is bleeding through the nose(usually 90% from a plexus of veins in Littles areas),due to nose-picking,trauma,nasal and paranasal neoplasms,nasal infection,systemic derangements eg. acute fevers,hypertension,renal disease with uraemia,abnormalities of blood

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Paste OR Zinc Iodoform Paraffin Paste
•sedate the patient with diazepam
•administer an antibiotic after conducting susceptibility testing but meanwhile,you can administer amoxicillin empirically
The pack can be left in for 5 https://t.co/yvSEen7Hie need to change the pack if

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An excessive production of GH in children results in gigantism.
An excessive production in adults(due to benign pituitary tumor)results in acromegaly(there’s enlargement mainly of the jaw,hands and feet.Bromocriptine and Octreotide can mitigate the condition.

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Growth Hormone (Somatotropin)
Secretion is high in newborn,decreasing at 4 years to an intermediate level which is then maintained until after puberty after which there’s further decline.Recombinant growth hormone,somatropin,is available for treating growth defects.

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Human GH is now prepared by recombinant DNA https://t.co/hgVlgolZuz’s used illicitly by athletes to increase muscle mass.Human recombinant IGF-1(Mecasermin) is also available for treatment of growth failure in children who lack adequate amounts of this hormone.

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@TheIronTory @PharmaFactz Always hilarious 😂.Thank you Thatcher for making some us happy😃

[Alyssa Sykuta Meester, PharmD, BCCCP @AMeester_PharmD]

For the record if your pharmacist is recommending an aminoglycoside know that we have literally exhausted all other possible options in our brains

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👉alternatives to hydrocortisone include corticosteroids such as prednisone or methylprednisolone.

[Smart RxMan @RxmanSmart]

Opioid Conversion Chart

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#pharmacy #pharfact #medicine #naplex

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Serotonin Syndrome
This is a potentially life threatening adverse drug reaction in which the brain has too much of https://t.co/7sMdw1mSjo often occurs when 2 drugs affecting the body’s level of serotonin are taken together.Patients are at a greater risk when a SNRI or SSRI

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to decrease agitation,seizures and muscle stiffness.
2.Cyproheptadine,to block serotonin production
3. Intravenous fluids via the veins
4. Withdrawal of medications that caused the syndrome