I got this article over at EMSMBC.com but it has to do with the need to when patients take their pills. This may not be a question you get that frequently but when you run in to some patients that maybe or having difficulty managing a large number of pills– you know who I am talking about. You go in the house they got that shoebox on the kitchen counter with like 30 pill bottles in it. You just kind of look at it and scratch your head. They don’t even take half of them anymore. The prescriptions are out of date. You’re trying to go through and write everything down and you have to ask them “what are you taking? What are you not taking? “. They don’t have a list and some of their problems managing their illnesses may have to do with how and when they are taking their medications. This article is a perfect example of that. Looking at a switch to daily scheduling like things like blood pressure pills could save off risk for heart attacks, stroke and sudden cardiac arrest in some patients. It has to do with taking your normal BP medicine rather than taking it first thing in the morning when you get up and taking it right before you go to bed at night saying that it is more effective to take before you go to sleep according to some researchers in a recent study. Now you shouldn’t do so obviously or counsel people to do so until they talk to their doctors.Read more on Research Reveals BP Meds Taken at Night Reduces Early Morning Arrests… read more..
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