pharmacology
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pharmacology main index
some useful links
- Western Health intranet only - how to use the new medication charts:
- Australian Law1) relating to prescribing Schedule 4, 8 or 9 poisons by a registered medical practitioner
- MUST NOT issue a prescription unless:
- the prescription is for the medical treatment of a person other than the practitioner, and,
- that person is under the practitioner's care, and named in the prescription, and,
- the practitioner has taken all reasonable steps to ensure a therapeutic need exists for that poison.
- in the ED, this would imply that an ED doctor should not write a discharge prescription for a physiotherapy practitioner's patient unless they themseleves have had some degree of personal assessment of that patient
shortcuts on this wiki
drugs particularly relevant to emergency medicine
other references
1)
Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 2017
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