On Tuesday 26 June 2007 11:20, Ken Harvey wrote:
> Long-acting benzodiazepines, amitriptyline, amiodarone, oxybutynin and
> doxepin were the medicines most commonly implicated. Strategies to
> support quality prescribing of medicines to the elderly must include a
> focus on these medicines.

In particular, amiodarone is most unlikely to be affected by a prescribing 
software warning, as it would be initiated 'elsewhere' which doesn't have 
computerised prescribing.
I am thinking of a non-Vet, aged 83, on peritoneal dialysis, being prescribed 
this at 100mg daily.
While a useful drug, she and I fixed on a dose of 50mg twice weekly which has 
worked for nearly 12 months.

-- 
Is it 1974?  What's for SUPPER?  Can I spend my COLLEGE FUND in one
wild afternoon??
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