Pharmacist | Quality Improvement Coach | Person-Centred Care | Neurodiversity Advocate
🎯 Deprescribing and ICU Pharmacy ICU might not feel like the natural home of deprescribing, but #pharmacists in #ICU have an important role to play in supporting a person's health team in delivering the best medicines care. Three tips which would help me in my role as a pharmacist in community when medication is started in ICU.. 1️⃣ Communicate 🗣️ 2️⃣ Communicate 📝 3️⃣ Also, communicate 😁 If the INDICATION and PLAN FOR REVIEW for medication is clear, it really supports GP and community based pharmacy teams to avoid #overprescribing and maximise patient safety.
ICU patients are at high risk for prescribing cascades (e.g. involving opioids, psychotropics, & PPIs). Acute medications started in the ICU, are often no longer needed at discharge from the ICU. However a systematic review shows 10-60% of patients continued to use medications that were deemed clinically inappropriate even after ICU discharge. #Deprescribing is "critical" in these patients! 🔍 How can we best tackle this problem? Read this overview article here: https://buff.ly/3yarJb9 Burry, Lisa Richard S Bourne Also check out our Deprescribing Guidelines & Algorithms: https://lnkd.in/ggwJhCCy
