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Watch Out For These Drugs On Updated Beers List

Published on Sat Jan 17, 2004 Print Friendly and PDF PDF

The updated Beers list of potentially dangerous drugs in the elderly contains a number of new drugs. Some of the additions include the following meds:

 

  •  Conventional antipsychotic medications, Reglan and Cognex, in patients with Parkinson's disease;
     
  •  Wellbutrin in residents with seizure disorders;
     
  •  Macrodantin;
     
  •  Ferrous sulfate greater than 325 mg;
     
  •  Daily Prozac;

  •  Catapres;

  •  Tagamet 

  •  Long-acting benzodiazepenes in residents who have COPD, stress incontinence, depression and falls; and
     
  •  Antispasmodics, muscle relaxants and barbiturates in residents with cognitive impairment.
     
    Editor's Note: Review all of the changes to the 1997 Beers list at     http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/163/22/2716/TABLEIOI20821T3.

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