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MIXING MEDICINES - Coggle Diagram
MIXING MEDICINES
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Reducing Risk
Avoiding Mixing by using an alternative route of drug administration, or prescribing a suitable alternative drug. Staggering the administration times of medicines or determining if one medicine can be temporarily stopped, without compromising patient care, while another is given, can also prevent the need to mix medicines.
Monitor for reactions caused by drug incompatibilities, even when mixing apparently compatible medicines. Patients should be monitored for injection site reactions, such as thrombophlebitis, and signs of organ failure also be monitored for treatment failure.
Seek Advice about the compabilities of the drug that is to be mixed. Information provided by the manufacturer should always be consulted first. Compatibility data are, however, limited and are often restricted to certain diluents and concentrations.
Reference source for compatibilities of drug:
- The american Society of Health System Pharmacists's 'Handbook on injectable drugs'.
- The online Medusa database for injectables.
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