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BNF Prescribing Practice for Medical Students
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BNF Prescribing Practice for Medical Students
Written by experienced doctors and the BNF, this resource is designed to improve your knowledge of prescribing medicines and patient management using the BNF. Practice questions support best practice, error reduction and legal requirements in prescribing.
The resource has a focus on emergency medicine, assessing your selection and prescribing of medicines in pressurised environments.
Improve your prescribing knowledge with:
- A hardcopy of BNF 56 issued by post
- 100 practice case problems, with links to the BNF 56 online
- Detailed performance analysis and feedback
- Revision advice from experienced tutors
This edition of BNF Prescribing Practice for Medical Students contains BNF No 56 which is subject to the following copyrights: BNF data © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and RPS Publishing, 2008.
Question of the day
Test your prescribing knowledge with our question of the day.
Theme:High blood pressure
You are about to prescribe an ACE inhibitor for a 45-year-old
Caucasian man with a persistent blood pressure of 145/105 mmHg over
the last 12 weeks despite lifestyle changes. All other
investigations are normal. He drinks approximately 12 units of
alcohol weekly and does not smoke.
His body mass index is 30 kg/m2.
Serum total cholesterol concentration = 4 mmol/litre.
HDL cholesterol = 1mmol/litre
1.
What is this patient's 10-year cardiovascular disease risk? (2 marks)
(To calculate this risk, use the Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Charts in the glossy reference pages at the back of the print version of the BNF)
2.
List one limitation of using these cardiovascular risk prediction charts in this patient. (2 marks)
3.
Should you prescribe low-dose aspirin and a lipid-regulating
drug for this patient? (4 marks)
For further information, click on: Hypertension
[While in this link scroll down to the paragraph entitled
'Other Measures to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk' and also
click on the link to '(section 2.12)']
4.
3 months later the patient's blood pressure is 140/95 mmHg.
He has been taking ramipril at the highest dose of 10 mg daily for
the last 6 weeks. Which antihypertensive drug will you add next? (2
marks)
For further information, click on: Hypertension