Re: Citalopram Error
There's loads of examples:
- ephedrine 0.5% nasal drops given to a week old baby (happened twice in 2 months)
- not weighing children to get the correct dose, and then not getting correct dose.
- metformin mr 500mg prescribed 1 TDS and it should have been metformim 500mg
- diltiazem twice a day formulations prescribed 1OD and diltiazem once a day prescribed as 1BD, and when I try to explain the difference, I'm not understood
- transtec patches prescribed to apply once a week, instead of apply every four days. In this case, the gp insisted that she didn't have to change the prescription and for me to tell the patient to change the patch when it stopped working. I refused to dispense the prescription written in that way, and she ammended it.
- glibenclamide given 2 BD --- it should have been gliclazide
- diamicron MR 30mg prescribed as 1 and a half a day. Contacted manufacturers, and the tablet is not supposed to be halfed.
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