Elderly Patients
Found 3 free book(s)Guidelines for Adult Patients Intravenous PCA Orders
www.meddean.luc.eduFor elderly patients over 70 years old and severely compromised patients, decrease the initial bolus and infusion rate by 25-30%. • For severe pain and opioid tolerant patients, do not use 4 hour limit. Basal/Continuous Infusion Rate: This may be necessary for severe pain, opioid tolerant patients, or those patients
Elderly Mobility Scale (EMS)
agile.csp.org.ukThe Elderly Mobility Scale (EMS) is a 20 point validated assessment tool for the assessment of frail elderly subjects (Smith 1994). EMS is an ordinal scale measurement. Appropriateness This test is appropriate for elderly patients in a hospital setting (Prosser and Canby 1997, Smith 1994)
TORADOL ORAL (ketorolac tromethamine tablets) Rx
www.accessdata.fda.govimpaired patients is between 6 and 19 hours and is dependent on the extent of the impairment. There is poor correlation between creatinine clearance and total ketorolac tromethamine clearance in the elderly and populations with renal impairment (r=0.5). In patients with renal disease, the AUC of each enantiomer increased by approximately