Friday, 24 June 2011

incident reporting

1. ivig for itp.

dose, 400mg/kg for 5 days. pt 70kg, total 30g per day. how to infuse? try 0.6ml/min, if after 30mins no reaction, increase by 0.2ml/min til max 4.8ml/min.

and then, it was infused at 0.6ml/h, increased to a grand total of 1.6ml/h 12 hours later. i didnt check. i know how the infusion pump works. it should have struck my brain. i deserve to be cut down by lightning.

patient not responding to the ivig.


2. ivi pantoprazole for ugih.

dose, 8mg/h for 72h. i dont know how i calculated, i told them to dilute 80mg in 100ml, infuse at 0.8ml/h. padahal it's nowhere near what it should be of 10ml/h. sn asked me whether i was sure, two shifts later. luckily the patient hasnt bled out.


3. vinblastine 10mg for abvd

prp supplied vincristine 2mg, and like the hero i am i didnt check. oh gosh i didnt check. this is the first thing you learn as a prp, countercheck, countercheck, countercheck. actually what i learnt first was the pen is your best friend... but anyway. i didnt countercheck. luckily the mo did. no bonus points for me from her, though.


3 damn fucked up stupid mistakes in 2 days. i hope the itp guy responds to the ivig soon. or not rm10k per day down the drain. how do i reverse this? i cant take leave, the ward is too messed up. but my brain is tired, and i am not even finishing the work i should be doing. and the work that i do end up doing is worse than cannot pakai, it's a downright liability. i need to get out of this walking dead frame of mind and actually function. i need to disregard all the stress i feel about research and the resentment i feel about the department and the demotivation i get looking at mr surgical, and just focus. please Lord help me focus for the next week. please help me focus.

Friday, 10 June 2011

hep hep

hokay. going to the ulus next week. starting second day of audit dalaman. with our favourite pharmacist.

quite excited actually. except when i think about conversation with mr aforementioned la. but oh yes to be away, away, away.

Saturday, 4 June 2011

remember when we first went over to the uk and cherry-flavoured yoghurt was yucky cos it just tasted like cough syrup?

seems like pharmaniaga people are branching out with the flavourings lately. was making sy cloxa and it tasted like pina coladas - serious, smelled like some kind of tropical mix and had the bitter aftertaste you could just put down to alcohol. and the dynapharma amoxy smells like mango or something.

so yeah poor kids. they're not gonna really have fun with the cocktails when they grow up.