Caution Patients About Supplements That Can Land Them In The Emergency Dept.

December 2015

You'll hear more about the dangers of using dietary supplements.

People often think of supplements as "safe." But new evidence shows that supplement adverse events lead to about 23,000 ED visits every year.

Over half of these visits are for CV issues, such as chest pain or palpitations, in younger people using weight loss or energy supplements.

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Table of Contents

Diabetes Help Patients Give Metformin a Fair Chance
Geriatrics Think of Beers Criteria as a "Warning Light" Rather Than a "Stop Sign"
Opioids Help Patients Buy-In to Tapering Off Opioids
Anticoagulants Consider Praxbind to Reverse Pradaxa In Patients with Life-Threatening Bleeding
Endocarditis Help Your Endocarditis Patients Complete Appropriate IV Antibiotics at Home
Alcohol Educate Patients at Discharge About Alcohol Interactions
Supplements Caution Patients About Supplements That Can Land Them In The Emergency Dept.
Aspirin Think of Durlaza as an Expensive Way to Get Low-Dose Aspirin
Fractures Avoid Canagliflozin (Invokana) in Patients at Risk of Fractures
Asthma Spiriva Respimat (tiotropium) will be the first long-acting anticholinergic for ASTHMA
Respiratory & Allergy Consider Adrenaclick or Its Generic Epinephrine Auto-Injector Instead of EpiPen