Ironic

I had a great week last week for querying and stopping potential overdoses of drugs, and they all seemed to come together in the space of two days. Here are some of them:

* The patient taking perindopril 8mg and 2mg tablets. On querying this, the 2mg tablet was stopped.

* Tramadol MR 200mg being prescribed QDS. Got this one changed to the BD dosage.

* Co-danthrusate being prescribed on repeat at a dose of 2 TDS. This should have just been docusate at this dosage.

I found making all these important interventions quite ironic so soon after the MHRA decided to allow us to continue to sell pseudoephedrine!