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"What is so different with Dialysis Patients Medications?"

By Lisa Sever <lsever@yorkcentral.on.ca>, B.Sc.Phm., Nephrology Pharmacist, York Region Dialysis Program, York Central Hospital, Richmond Hill, Ontario.

This presentation was prepared to help educate community pharmacists about kidney disease and the impact it has on medication therapy. It is designed to first tell your audience about your program, discuss treatment modalities, and signs and symptoms of chronic renal failure. A self-assessment quiz is then taken by the audience, before proceeding into case based scenarios, mostly involving OTC problems and dosing guidelines. This is followed by having the audience do a medication timetable for a patient so they can appreciate how taking all of the medications with respect to proper indication, dialysis, drug interactions is quite challenging. The final part includes specific aspects for community pharmacists (i.e. auxiliary labels, role etc).

At the very end, I had them redo the self-assessment quiz. I asked if anyone had to change any answers (everyone did!). We took up the quiz. This was a very well received presentation. I encourage you all to use it or derive your own to help educate the community pharmacists involved in our dialysis patients.

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"Medications! What's the big deal?"

By Lisa Sever <lsever@yorkcentral.on.ca>, B.Sc.Phm., Nephrology Pharmacist, York Region Dialysis Program, York Central Hospital, Richmond Hill, Ontario.

This presentation is aimed at empowering your renal insufficiency patients to ensure that blood pressure, blood sugars, cholesterol and heart risk factors are meeting the goals needed to slow the progression of their renal disease and minimize heart disease. The second part talks about medications and some of the early complications of renal disease.

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"Adverse Drug Reactions"

Mark Ward-Dragich, SPEP student,Grand River Hospital, Kitchener Ontario (No longer at this location).
Presented February, 2000

This presentation was used to educate and create awareness among the Renal Program staff about the procedure all health care personnel should follow when witnessing an adverse drug reaction. It discussed the importance of ADR reporting, talked about what type of reactions to report and the actual process of reporting.

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