On-call scenario 4: Questions

Last updated: Monday, June 03, 2024

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You ask for more information, and receive the following…
 
Caller: Dr Rahul Kotecha, FY2 on Medicine, bleep 3344.
 
Patient: Amy Steer, aged 78 years.
 
Medicines: Co-beneldopa dispersible 25/100 QDS and ropinirole 2mg TDS. No other medicines and no allergies.
 
Clinical problem: Patient having their medicines through a nasogastric tube, but they keep trying to pull it out. Thinking of changing their Parkinson’s medicines to a rotigotine patch but need to know the dose conversion.
 

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