Hey, all, welcome back to the real-life pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, pharmacist, Eric Christensen.

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real-life pharmacology.com. All right. So this is going to be part one of a little bit of a short

special series here on medication air errors. I'm going to go

through a lot of the terminology, many mistakes, some common, some not so common. And I'm also going

to provide you examples that I've seen myself in real life practice that I've heard of happening,

that I think can really help you become a better physician or pharmacist or nurse or whatever the case may be.

So these are going to be important errors to look out for what they are first and foremost, and try to give you some,

you know, common examples, some real life situations that I've come across in my over a decade

now of experience as a pharmacist. All right, first one I'm going to start with is a prescribing

error. So this is a prescribing error.

So this is a mistake at the point of writing a prescription.

So, for instance, the provider wants to start lysineapril 10 milligrams, and they inadvertently write for 40 milligrams.

Maybe they were thinking about something else or whatever the case may be.

Now, this is an example of something that can easily be caught if, you know, a pharmacist,

if a nurse, if somebody's paying attention and they recognize dosages.

So if, you know, as a pharmacist, if you're dispensing this medication and you see a new order for lysinepro,

patients never been on it, never been on another ACE inhibitor, an ARB, or anything like that,

and you see an order for 40 milligrams of lysinepro, the highest dose, you know, that should, you know,

prompt some alarms in your head, like, whoa, this is weird, you know,

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