Re: Drug Holiday
One day a week we held off (with doctors orders) all meds except antibiotics, digoxin, eltroxin and certain psych drugs in all stable patients, meaning not giving routine drugs like Colace, antihypertensives, etc, It was supposed to be good for the kidneys and liver. All our pts did well on it, we had to moniter vitals on the drug holiday and in our experience no ones BP went up- we were surprised and did it for about a year, then I left and management was changed etc. and I understood that the facility went downhill....(not related to the drug holiday)_
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