At present, many patients with atrial fibrillation are taking Warfarin. According to the latest issue of "Drug Safety" released by the Hospital Authority, a total of 53 medical accidents were related to Warfarin in the past two years.
In order to ensure the safe use of oral anticoagulant warfarin by patients, the Hospital Authority has implemented a number of measures, including the development of new functions to allow pharmacists and medical staff to view and edit the clinical intent of prescribing warfarin, and to remind medical staff when prescribing and When administering warfarin, carefully check the dosage, the patient's coagulation index, the method and time of medication, and other information.
Medical According to the latest issue of "Drug Safety" released by the Hospital Authority, a total of 53 medical accidents were related to Boxue Pills in the past two years.
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According to the latest issue of "Drug Safety" published by the Hospital Authority, from 2019 to September this year, a total of 53 medical accidents were related to Boxue Pill warfarin. The patient misunderstood the need to take warfarin twice a day instead of once in the afternoon, and mistook the IgA result for the prothrombin time result (INR result), resulting in improper warfarin titration Wait.
According to foreign research, warfarin is the most common drug that causes people to go to the emergency room for medical treatment due to adverse drug reactions, accounting for 17.5%, and it accounts for nearly 31.9% of the elderly over 65 years old.
Among the drugs with adverse drug reactions due to Boxue Pills, 85.7% were taking warfarin.
From this point of view, the Hospital Authority has introduced a number of new measures to ensure safe use, including the development of new functions that allow pharmacists and medical staff to view and edit the clinical intent of prescribing warfarin, and remind medical staff when prescribing and administering warfarin , to carefully check the dose, patient coagulation index, medication method and time and other information.
In addition, all pharmacy divisions under the Hospital Authority will uniformly use 1 mg (brown) and 3 mg (pink blue) "warfarin" tablets to give the same combination of warfarin tablets according to the dose.
In addition, a number of hospitals are also piloting the "Medication Genie" system, allowing pharmacists and medical staff to check the latest prothrombin time results (INR results) before prescribing warfarin.
A series of drug accidents at Zhongda Hospital involved prescribing wrong narcotics and incorrectly adjusting the infusion rate of chemotherapy. Emergency physicians at North District Hospital were involved in indiscriminately dispensing controlled drugs to their family members. The doctor who stole the medicine from the Hospital Authority will be transferred to the district court for review. The doctor did not mention the side effects of the uric acid drug allopurinol. hint