PATIENTS may be susceptible to adverse drug events (ADEs) during acute illness due to comorbidities or medicine use, according to an article in the latest Australian Prescriber from NPS MedicineWise.
Acute illness should prompt careful monitoring or dose adjustment in patients prescribed certain medicines, authors state.
Drugs such as metformin, diuretics and sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors, when there is a risk of hypovolaemia, may need to be temporarily suspended, especially for those with chronic kidney disease at the limits of their physiological reserve.
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