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Do you know how your medications impact your lab values?

6/21/2019

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by Rose Rohloff
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It is known taking medications will impact various lab values. For example, Diuretics e.g. Lasix (Furosemide), can cause low potassium levels. There is an interesting article in Medscape, Which Drugs Interact With Lab Tests? Jun 18, 2019., addressing the fact that certain medications can also interact with the actual processing of certain lab tests causing inaccurate results.  
A recent view of the prescribing information for 1368 prescription drugs found that 134 (9.8%) included information about a specific lab test interaction, 31 (2.3%) stated that the drug did not interfere with lab tests, and four stated that there was no available information.[1] ...

The most common examples of drug-lab test interactions are with urine specimens, because drugs may interfere with the assays for the chemical components in urine. For example, cephalosporins may alter urine glucose and ketone tests. 


By Gayle N. Scott, PharmD DISCLOSURES June 18, 2019
​Medscape Pharmacists, © 2019 WebMD, LLC Any views expressed above are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of WebMD or Medscape. 

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To read the full article, access it here.
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Patients, families and caregivers need to be aware of what name, class, internal action, as well as all other medication interactions for every medication, vitamin and supplements being taken.

As Dr. Scott shares as insightful, it is also important before getting lab values done to understand if any medications being taken will impact labs to be processed and cause false results.
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Patient Safety - Privacy Curtains

6/5/2019

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By Linda Lybert  President/ Healthcare Surfaces Expert, Founder/Executive Director Healthcare Surfaces Institute

Privacy curtains must be addressed and as I talk with healthcare professionals about this issue I get mixed reactions. Digging deep into the issue the biggest problem is the amount of time and labor it takes to actually change the curtains out. "It is backbreaking and we don't have enough staff to actually do this on a regular basis." Every facility sets its own standards for changing privacy curtains and the responsibility lays with operations. Policies range from change when visibly soiled (NOTE: microbes can't be seen) to once a quarter and even once a year and any time in-between. As research continues to be published it is clear to mitigate the spread of infections solutions this must be part of a solutions bundle addressing all surfaces! See LinkedIn Post with full Study: Patient Privacy Curtains represent Infection Risk
Linda Lybert is an amazing expert in healthcare surfaces. The same circumstances existed 20 yrs ago, but clinicians were properly trained & executed safety processes/avoided cross contamination; learning in school movement memory e.g. wash hands after closing curtains before touching patients, use elbows to open curtains to enter or push all the way open, etc. #1 issue - lack of clinical training, laziness, and inadequate adherence of movement memory for proper safety protocols. Rose Rohloff
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