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High-quality medicines reconciliation should ideally occur in the emergency department or soon after admission to the ward.
AP
Mr Sotirios Temopoulos had a medical history that included multiple myeloma with a myelomataus lesion in his cervical spine, in which he was prescribed a fentanyl patch and pregabalin for neuropathic pain.
He also lived with a deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, meningitis, liver steatosis, depression, pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, chronic renal impairment, hypercholesteraemia, and had suffered a stroke.
At the time of his death, Mr Temopoulos received a weekly DAA from Quality Pharmacy in a separate DAA to those of his wife, Ekaterini.
In his DAA were:
- metabolic syndrome
- colecalcirerol
- coloxyl with senna
- oxycodone
- escitalopram
- atorvastatin
- pantoprazole
- aspirin
- valaciclovir
- lenalidomide
- oxycodone/naloxone (Targin).
Earlier in July 2020, Mr Temopoulos began taking lenalidomide, a chemotherapy drug, for his multiple myeloma, which was infused at Box Hill Hospital once a month. However, on 20 July, after a fall from his bed, he could not attend due to increasing back and kidney pain which were later diagnosed as lumbar spine fractures and he spent several days in hospital.
