6.7d Pre Emptive Medicaction

Question 1

What is a pre-emptive medication?

Answer 1

A prescription for a medicine to be administered when needed.
○ e.g. Morphine sulphate 2.5mg 1 hourly PRN

Question 2

What would typical pre emptive medication prescriptions look like?

Answer 2

Question 3

What is a syringe driver?

Answer 3

• A pump used to continuously supply medication over 24 hours to the patient

Question 4

How is the syringe pump typically linked up to the patient

Answer 4

Subcutaneously

Question 5

What is the advantage of a syringe driver?

Answer 5

Can combine several drugs in the same syringe and administer via the same route

Question 6

Why is it important for pharmacists to get ivolved when adding more than one drug a syringe driver?

Answer 6

Big TOPIC for pharmacists…Which drugs can you combine together and which drugs can you not combine in the syringe driver?

Question 7

Are there any charts which help you decide which drugs are compatible for dual therapy in a syringe driver?

Answer 7

Question 8

Are there any charts which help you decide which drugs are compatible for triple therapy in a syringe driver?

Answer 8