PRN sedative prescribing in the elderly

Audit: Prescribing PRN medication.

BACKGROUND PRN prescriptions enablehealthcare staff to respond quickly to the urgent clinical needs of the user without having to contact the responsible clinician (RC). One problem, established amongst most institutions by NICE regarding the use of PRN, is that most of these institutions struggle to keep an updated or full record on the PRN medications. Thus, the aim of this audit was to check...

A Study of the Status of Prescribing Herbal Medicines by Physicians Among the Elderly in Tehran

Objectives: Herbal medicine is one of the most widely used methods of complementary medicine around the world and studies have shown that the elderly use a variety of natural and herbal products and believe that these products are harmless due to their natural nature. Therefore, due to the desire of the elderly to use herbal medicines, our aim of this study was to evaluate the amount of herbal ...

Anticholinergic and sedative medicines - prescribing considerations for people with dementia.

BACKGROUND Older people with dementia may be particularly susceptible to cognitive impairment associated with anticholinergic and sedative medicines. This impairment may be misattributed to the disease process itself. OBJECTIVE This review examines clinical considerations associated with using anticholinergic and sedative medicines in people with dementia or incipient cognitive impairment. It...

Prescribing psychotropic drugs for the elderly

treatment for the cognitive deficit. Non-cognitive features in dementia are amenable to treatment with neuroleptics and non-neuroleptic drugs. In vascular dementia, risk factor reduction and aspirin improve cognitive function. Patients with Lewy body dementia are particularly sensitive to neuroleptics. Remember inter-individual variation in drug metabolism is much greater in elderly than in you...

Guideline-Based Prescribing in Frail Elderly Patients.