Antibiotic Prescriptions: A Case Study

Every year a familiar scene plays out in clinic waiting rooms, chairs filled with miserable patients waiting to see their physician with complaints of a never ending cough and a constant nasal drip. More than likely, these patients will receive a prescription for antibiotics, but should they? Most acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs), do not require an antibiotic, the symptoms will resolve themselves over time without antibiotic treatment. Healthcare experts and scientists have warned the public about the dangers of overusing antibiotics, and there are thousands of studies to support that fact, but no one is listening. Patients are convinced they need to have antibiotic treatment, and somehow their time is wasted if they leave empty

This can lead to more complications such as further infection or sepsis. IV antibiotic therapy may result in phlebitis, extravasation injury, thrombosis, and bacteremia (NCBI, 2015). This is dangerous for a newborn, especially since she is just getting over an infection from her bowel perforation.

After Doris was sent home with two types of medication, she should really read closely to what the bottle says. Medication A is to be taken every four hours by mouth and medication B is to be taken three times a day by mouth. Usually when some medication is three times a day, it has to be taken with food, that way it can be taken with meals. The medication that is every four hours probably will be okay taken on a empty stomach. Since these medications are liquid, the doctor will advise nothing to be ate or drank within 30 minutes of taking. Liquid medications are usually made for coating the throat/intestines. And of course, no alcohol and no operating machinery until Doris gets used to the side effects.

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Francesca, thank you for your discussion. I enjoyed how you described what Jane is experiencing with her medication. What I would try to explain to her would be that each of our bodies operate in different ways. That some individual respond differently to all forms of medications and why some have allergic reactions. Therefore, it makes sense that the gentlemen that she met in the lobby has a different response than she does with a different medication. However, it in no way means that the medication that he is taking would be affective. Furthermore, I would explain that I would not recommend her to change the medication because right now it appears to be working. It appears that her system has reached complete equilibrium (Preston,

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Department of Health and Human Services 2013). The dependency of antibiotics can also be reflected by the over consumption of antibiotics in pediatric care. Patients in the pediatric care unit are also being overprescribed antibiotics at a much higher rate, “a study showed that doctors prescribe antibiotics 62% of the time if they perceive parents expect them and 7% of the time if they feel parents do not expect them.” (H, Brook et. Al. 1999). Antibiotics are meant to heal patients however when misused by the population, ”antibiotic-resistance mostly happens in the general community.” (World Health Organization 2013). The view that antibiotics act is an antidote for anything that causes illness is a dangerous perception. This problem begs for a program that can regulate the impulse to give into antibiotics.

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Well the first red flag would have been when the receptionist told her she would have the doctor call her prescription into the pharmacy in Boston and when Jill arrived the Prescription was not called in. the other red flag was when she tried to page both of her physician with no response. I would have gone straight to the Emergency Department and seen a physician there and explained my situation that if I didn’t have my medication I would have seizure which could jeopardize my wellbeing. I would do exactly what Jill did and change physician as soon as I could.

Antibiotics are usually prescribed for non-specific upper respiratory tract infection to avoid small risks for getting worst and becoming bacterial infection. Patients with acute respiratory infection with antibiotic treatment were not at increased risk for severe adverse effect and had a small decreased risk of hospitalization due to pneumonia (Meropol, Localio, & Metlay, 2013). Similarly, presence of risk factors such as age > 65, COPD, diabetes, heart failure, atherosclerotic heart disease, asthma, smoking, etc. had similar prescription rate of 62% to those patients without risk factors (Grover, Mookadam, Rutkowski, Cullan, Hill, Patchett & Noble, 2012).

In America, we tend to try to make the greatest profit off of our food, and how we accomplish this is by feeding our animals, that eventually become our food, antibiotics to make them larger and meatier. According to Michael Pollen’s famous quote, “you are what, what you eat, eats,” and since our food is consuming antibiotics, we are also consuming those antibiotics that make the foods larger and meatier. So therefore, in return wouldn’t consuming these animals also make the consumer larger and meatier since we are also consuming those antibiotics indirectly?

The undersigned facelifted a session focused on Medication management. The staff trained Billy how to refill medication box with the correct medication. The staff taught Belly how to count the remaining medications. After counting the medications, the staff reminded Belly to call the pharmacy and introduce himself before he could ask for refill. Moreover, Belly followed the instructions, he introduced himself and then he asked fore refills. Furthermore, after the Billy was done talking to the pharmacist, the staff collected all his medications and put them in the lock cabinet. The plain is to continue to train Billy how to manage his medications.

Adriamycin may cause severe and possibly life-threatening heart problems such as myocardial oxidative injury as well as the apoptosis of myocardial cells it found that Astragaloside IV can suppress these effects induced by Adriamycin(2003;Li et al.,2006). These findings showed that the mechanisms of action of Astragaloside IV against myocardial damage may be

A couple times a year local and national mass media put the spotlight on problems connected to antibiotic overuse. Some people consider those problems to be real and serious, and others think that the discussed topics are nothing more than new “fashionable” subjects to talk about, distracting people from “real” problems, such as climbing gas prices or war expenses. Meanwhile, antibiotic overuse continues as a common practice among US doctors and agribusinesses for the last 20 years. The practice of antibiotic overuse has put patient’s health at risk, contributed to antibiotic resistance and increased bacterial mutation to a new, stronger level; as well as it hitting the economy with new costly expenses in health care. It is time to stop