Good article Joicy. Since I am a diabetic, addison and cushings were I to
stop my meds. before surgery I would not have to have the surgery! My meds.
have to be increased for surgery, that is if I want to live and talk about
it......Your friend, lillian
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From: "Joicy" <joicy@erols.com>
To: <MOL.mol-cancer@lists.meds.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 3:48 PM
Subject: [MOL] Stopping medicine before surgery may be dangerous
> Thought this info was important to pass on...thinking of you all, and
> keeping you in my prayers. Love, Joicy
>
> Stopping medicine before surgery may be dangerous
> [09/24/2000; Reuters News Service]
>
> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you've ever had surgery, your doctor
> may have told you not to eat after a certain hour the night before,
> to refrain from alcohol, and perhaps stop taking prescription
> drugs. Although the aim of these precautions is to ensure that
> the operation goes smoothly, the practice of abruptly stopping
> prescription drugs should be reconsidered, according to a report. In
> fact, the consequences of stopping prescription medications before
> surgery may be so serious that they are as big a problem as drug
> errors, according to Dr. David W. Noble of Grampian University
> in the UK, and Dr. Henrik Kehlet of Hvidovre University Hospital
> in Denmark.Writing in the September 23rd issue of the British
> Medical Journal, Noble and Kehlet cite research showing that
> patients who stop taking prescription drugs before surgery may
> be at increased risk of complications. In one study, people who
> stopped taking medications for cardiovascular disease for 2 or
> more days had a 27% rate of complications, compared with a 12%
> rate for those who skipped the drugs for fewer than 2 days.Some
> drugs that could make surgery dangerous, such as blood thinners,
> most likely need to be stopped before an operation, according
> to the authors. But there are ways to reduce the impact of stopping
> drugs, they note. When possible, patients could be allowed to
> take their normal medications until the day before the surgery,
> Noble and Kehlet suggest.
>
> The full article can be found at:
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000922/hl/surgery_3.html
>
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