Repeat intervention

Here are a few of the interventions I have made this week:

* The patient with numerous repeat medicines, which included two calcium
channel blockers. He had intended to take them both together so we contacted
the surgery to clarify which one the patient should be taking and which one
had been stopped.

* The lady who had recently had her blood pressure reviewed in outpatients
and had had her medication changed. However she didn’t know which of her
regular medicines were for blood pressure and of these, which she should
stop once she started taking the new ones from the hospital. So I advised
her to talk to her GP to make sure she took the correct ones, and stopped
the other ones appropriately (since one was a high dose of beta blocker).

* The patient recently issued a GTN spray who had been inhaling it rather
than spraying it under the tongue.