saflynn

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1. Morphine and comfort care.

   saflynn replied to Alnitak7's topic in Hospice

   I have a resident who has end stage COPD and is on scheduled Morphine 5 mg TID and PRN Morphine 10 mg every one hour. Also has scheduled and PRN ATivan 1.5 mg every four hours. There are days when this person takes PRN MS hourly on top of the sched...

2. Top medications used in LTC

   saflynn replied to jkline18's topic in Geriatric

   I recently had a pt with end stage CHF and he remained on over 30 meds even after he was put into hospice care! Crazy! You bet your bottom I said something! Was I treating symptoms or the adverse side effects of these meds?! Well, his significant oth...