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Polypharmacy: Less is more

Senior Trauma Patients: An Integrated Approach, Page: 143-147
2022
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Assessment and management of polypharmacy in old trauma patients can be divided into several clinically overlapping phases. The immediate trauma phase and early periods following trauma often lead to an increased medication load due to acute pain treatment and anesthesia. Thus, assessment and management of polypharmacy are key elements during the early mobilization and discharge phase of a geriatric trauma patient. A structured and comprehensive review of each medication based on the risk benefit ratio should ideally lead to the reduction of both number and dose of medication. Every modification of a medication regimen which aims to reduce patient risk should be communicated to the primary care physician prior at with discharge in order to improve acceptance.

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