http://www.rosemontpharma.com/blog/2009/10/how-can-i-take-my-medication-if-i-can%e2%80%99t-swallow/ Swallowing Difficulties Affect Thousands And We Unravel Some Of The Mysteries Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:14:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-beta1 http://www.rosemontpharma.com/blog/2009/10/how-can-i-take-my-medication-if-i-can%e2%80%99t-swallow/comment-page-1/#comment-45 withheld Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:14:58 +0000 http://www.rosemontpharma.com/blog/?p=57#comment-45 “It’s not that we don’t ask for liquids, its GP,s who will not prescribe, due to cost –i had a patient who was diagnosed with cardiac problems. Over a period of time the patient’s legs became severely oedematous and I consulted the doctor and requested a Frusemide liquid. Not for the first time he again refused. I waited and contacted a doctor out of hours as I had been having no joy with her own doctor. When the doctor visited, he admitted her to hospital. The lady was put in the care of a consultant at the local hospital... The nurse agreed if it was not for the out of hour’s doctor who admitted the patient to hospital where they put her on Frusemide it could have resulted in a more serious outcome. On the patient’s return to the nursing home her legs had became ulcerated and required district nurses coming to the home to dress the wounds. Consider: all the costs involved in going to hospital and wound care that it will cost the NHS. “It’s not that we don’t ask for liquids, its GP,s who will not prescribe, due to cost –i had a patient who was diagnosed with cardiac problems. Over a period of time the patient’s legs became severely oedematous and I consulted the doctor and requested a Frusemide liquid. Not for the first time he again refused.
I waited and contacted a doctor out of hours as I had been having no joy with her own doctor. When the doctor visited, he admitted her to hospital. The lady was put in the care of a consultant at the local hospital…
The nurse agreed if it was not for the out of hour’s doctor who admitted the patient to hospital where they put her on Frusemide it could have resulted in a more serious outcome.
On the patient’s return to the nursing home her legs had became ulcerated and required district nurses coming to the home to dress the wounds.
Consider: all the costs involved in going to hospital and wound care that it will cost the NHS.

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