Deprescribing Case 6
A deprescribing case was documented in the article by Barbara Farrell, Salima Shamji and Dan Dalton: Managing chronic diseases in the frail elderly: More than just adhering to clinical guidelines.
A 79-year-old man was referred to the GDH for assessment of cognition, pain, falls, difficulty with mobility and transfers, mood, dizziness and insomnia. His medical history was significant for prostate cancer, low back pain secondary to severe spinal stenosis, long-standing depression, osteoarthritis of the hips and knees, myocardial infarction 7 years previously with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), left-sided heart failure secondary to ischemic cardiomyopathy (NYHA class II), bilateral total knee replacements, type 2 diabetes, moderate sensory neural hearing loss, 3 previous upper gastrointestinal bleeds and bilateral cataract surgery.
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