Safe Prescribing Episode 5: Dangerous Drugs – Focus on methotrexate
The Medical Protection New Zealand podcastShow Notes
There are some medications that come up time and again when we consider prescribing errors where serious harm has been done to a patient.
The list includes lithium, clozapine, anti-inflammatories and anticoagulants, but one other medication that should always make us take extra special care when prescribing, is methotrexate.
This podcast considers a case where methotrexate prescribing led to a patient’s admission to ICU, but there have been New Zealand cases in the past where patients have died.
In this podcast we use methotrexate as an example of how you can make your prescribing safer.
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