For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
Making the most of maggots: Nurse advocates for greater larval therapy use
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Making the most of maggots: Nurse advocates for greater larval therapy use
Wednesday 18 July 2018, 07:30 AM

Medical maggots applied to sloughing, long-term, unhealed and often ulcerated wounds debride the wound, accelerating healing
Medical maggot use is “cheap as chips” and increasing awareness could have large payoffs in chronic wound outcomes
Increasing doctor and patient awareness about medical maggot use has the potential for big payoffs for treatment outcomes, Canterbury charge nurse Yv
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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