NIFEDIPINE

This weekend at work, I realized I’ve been verifying the wrong formulations of diltiazem for two patients, and it’s really weighing on me. For the two patients, the prescription was written for Dilt XR 180 mg capsules, but I verified it as Diltiazem ER (CD) 180 mg capsules instead. If a doctor write

When patients check in at our facility, nurses will steal their home meds and bring them to pharmacy for lockup until the patient can take them back at discharge. Tonight... We were brought a prescription bottle of 90mg Nifedipine. It had about 12ml of liquid in it. Nurse said "Family claims this is

So I have a question, mostly for healthcare professionals, but if you have insight, feel free to add: I’m a pharmacist and there was a script for a male in his late 70s sent in earlier this week. He was taking nifedipine ER 30mg, 1 tablet daily, and we sent a refill request in on his behalf. The

Every once in a while, I come across a patient who has a history of RYGB and is on ER meds - nifedipine XL/CC or metoprolol succinate are pretty common. But I can't find much literature describing the kinetic changes of these in such pts. Obviously with bypassing the stomach, duodenum and proximal j

I'm an NP working on an inpatient psych unit. This evening, I ordered topical lidocaine gel 2% for pain caused by a probable anal fissure (I did not do a physical exam--the order was based on the patient's description of symptoms.) My goal was to provide pain relief pending a medicine consult tomorr