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L11: Medication Safety Flashcards

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Def of Medication Safety

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  • Freedom from preventable harm with medication use.
  • Freedom from accidental injury due to medical care or medical errors during the medication-use process.
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No medicine is absolutely safe

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…

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Making sure that medicines are safe for their intended use is an on-going process that…

  • Starts in:
  • Continues:
  • Closely monitored by:
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  • The developmental stage.
  • long after medicine is in the market.
  • manufactures & the Regulatory Agencies.
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Def of AE (Adverse Event or Adverse Experience)

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Any untoward medical occurrence.

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Do AEs necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment?

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No

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when do AE (Adverse Event or Adverse Experience) occur?

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Occur during treatment with a pharmaceutical product.

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what do AE (Adverse Event or Adverse Experience) include?

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  • Side Effect.
  • Adverse Drug Reaction.
  • Medication error.
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Compare between Side effects & Adverse Drug Reactions in terms of:

  • Def
  • severity
  • Drug Dose
  • Casual Relationships
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Characters of Serious Adverse Event (SAE)

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An AE or ADR that is…

  • Associated with Death & Life threatening.
  • Results in hospitalization or prolongs existing hospitalization.
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Characters of SUSAR (Serious - Unexpected - Suspected Adverse reaction)

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  • Serious.
  • Not included in Product Core Safety Data Sheet.
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Medication safety & taking precautionary steps are extremely important, why?

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To prevent Adverse reactions - Overdoses - Death).

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Drug Safety Measurment

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Types of Errors

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Types of Errors (Another Diagram)

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Whether a patient is prescribed an opioid or a general antibiotic, They should follow general steps to ensure medication safety.

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….

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Def of Pharmacovigilance

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Safety Measures of Drugs

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what does Pharmacovigilance aim to?

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Rationale for Continued pharmacovigilance

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14
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Def of Medication Errors

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Any preventable event that may cause or lead to (Inappropriate medication use -Patient harm) while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.

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Types of Medication Errors

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  • Prescribing.
  • Omission “dispensing errors”.
  • Wrong time.
  • Unauthorized drug.
  • Improper dose.
  • Wrong dose prescription/wrong dose preparation.
  • Administration errors including…
  • The incorrect route of administration.
  • Giving the drug to the wrong patient.
  • Extra dose or wrong rate.
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what are Prescribing Errors?

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What are Dispensing Errors?

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errors linked to the pharmacy.

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What are the most common Dispensing Errors?

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  • Dispensing an incorrect medication.
  • Dosage strength or form & miscalculating a dose.
  • Failing to identify drug interactions or contraindications.
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what are Drug adminstration Errors?

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18
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Is it ok to take medicine immediately after eating?

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  • There is no simple answer to this question.
  • However, as a general rule you should take medicine on an empty stomach (one hour before eating or 2 hours after), Because many medicines can be affected by what you eat and when you eat it.
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Taking medication after eating or with food usually means taking medication ……..

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taking medication 30 minutes to one hour after a meal.

20
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Examples for medications need to be taken after eating …….

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  • NSAIDs “Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs” (As ibuprofen, aspirin).
  • Metformin for diabetes.
  • Steroid medication.
21
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what are Errors that occur in Hospitals?

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22
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Causes of Medication Errors

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The most common causes of medication errors are:

  • Poor communication: Between your doctors, Between you & your doctors.
  • Drug names that sound alike & medications that look alike.
  • Medical abbreviations.
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Medical Errors Prevention

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  • strategies to reduce Prescribing errors
  • Strategies to reduce dispensing errors
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Strategies to reduce Prescribing errors

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23
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Strategies to reduce dispensing errors

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  • Standardized concentrations for IV medications.
  • Use commercially prepared solutions.
  • Dispense a unit of use.
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Role of both patient & doctors in Decreasing Medication Errors

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