Prescription Writing Practice

Acute Gout in Chronic Kidney Disease: Choosing a Safe Anti-Inflammatory

Diagnosis: Acute gout of the first metatarsophalangeal joint (podagra)

Acute Otitis Media in a 4-Year-Old: Antibiotic and Analgesic Prescribing

Diagnosis: Acute otitis media

Acute Severe Asthma in a 24-Year-Old Woman

Diagnosis: Acute severe asthma

Addisonian Crisis in a Patient with Vomiting and Fever

Diagnosis: Addisonian crisis

Alcohol Withdrawal in a 48-Year-Old Man

Diagnosis: Alcohol withdrawal syndrome

Anaphylaxis to Intravenous Co-amoxiclav

Diagnosis: Anaphylaxis (adverse drug reaction to co-amoxiclav)

Atrial fibrillation with chronic kidney disease: anticoagulation

Diagnosis: Atrial fibrillation with chronic kidney disease stage 3b

Cellulitis in a penicillin-allergic patient with renal impairment

Diagnosis: Lower limb cellulitis

Community-acquired pneumonia in a penicillin-allergic patient taking warfarin

Diagnosis: Community-acquired pneumonia, CURB-65 score 1, for home treatment

Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Initial Prescribing

Diagnosis: Community-acquired pneumonia

Confirmed Proximal Deep Vein Thrombosis: Outpatient Anticoagulation

Diagnosis: Proximal deep vein thrombosis (left popliteal and femoral veins)

Constipation on Opioid Therapy: Prescribing a Laxative Regimen

Diagnosis: Constipation

Discharge Prescription after NSTEMI and Stenting

Diagnosis: Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) with single drug-eluting stent to right coronary artery

First episode of Clostridioides difficile infection after co-amoxiclav

Diagnosis: Clostridioides difficile infection (first episode)

H. pylori positive dyspepsia in a patient on simvastatin

Diagnosis: Helicobacter pylori positive dyspepsia

Hyperkalaemia in an elderly patient with chronic heart failure and renal impairment

Diagnosis: Hyperkalaemia complicating chronic heart failure and chronic kidney disease

Hypertension in a 58-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes and albuminuria

Diagnosis: Hypertension with type 2 diabetes and albuminuria

Hypertension in a Black African Man: First-Line Therapy

Diagnosis: Stage 2 hypertension

Hypertension in pregnancy

Diagnosis: Hypertension in pregnancy

Hypokalaemia in Heart Failure on Furosemide: Oral Potassium Replacement

Diagnosis: Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Infective exacerbation of COPD with type 2 respiratory failure risk

Diagnosis: Infective exacerbation of COPD with type 2 respiratory failure risk

Iron Deficiency Anaemia in a Woman with Menorrhagia

Diagnosis: Iron deficiency anaemia

Lower UTI in an Elderly Woman on Warfarin with Renal Impairment

Diagnosis: Lower urinary tract infection

Migraine with aura in a 28-year-old woman on a combined oral contraceptive

Diagnosis: Migraine with aura

Moderate Depression in a 70-Year-Old Man with Recent Hip Fracture: Prescribing an Antidepressant

Diagnosis: Moderate depressive episode

Nausea in a Patient with Parkinson's Disease on Co-beneldopa

Diagnosis: Parkinson's disease

Newly Diagnosed Generalised Epilepsy in a Woman of Childbearing Potential

Diagnosis: Generalised epilepsy

Newly diagnosed heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: initiation of therapy

Diagnosis: Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)

Newly diagnosed hypothyroidism in an elderly patient with ischaemic heart disease: treatment considerations

Diagnosis: Primary hypothyroidism

Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: Initiating First-line Therapy

Diagnosis: Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Outpatient Management of Acute Pyelonephritis

Diagnosis: Acute pyelonephritis

Postoperative Pain After Laparotomy

Diagnosis: Postoperative pain after laparotomy

Prescribing Analgesia for Knee Osteoarthritis in an Older Woman on Aspirin

Diagnosis: Knee osteoarthritis

Prescribing for a 2-Year-Old with Fever and Pain

Diagnosis: Acute otitis media

Prescribing for acute uncomplicated cystitis

Diagnosis: Acute uncomplicated cystitis

Prescribing for Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Diagnosis: Painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Prescribing for Uncomplicated Cellulitis of the Lower Leg

Diagnosis: Uncomplicated cellulitis of the right lower leg

Pulmonary embolism in renal impairment

Diagnosis: Pulmonary embolism

Rate Control and Anticoagulation in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation with Asthma

Diagnosis: Persistent atrial fibrillation with fast ventricular rate

Recurrent Falls in an 86-Year-Old Woman Taking Multiple Antihypertensives

Diagnosis: Recurrent falls with orthostatic hypotension

Recurrent hypoglycaemia in an older patient with renal impairment

Diagnosis: Recurrent hypoglycaemia

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Initiating a DMARD

Diagnosis: Rheumatoid arthritis

Sick-Day Insulin Prescription for a 19-Year-Old with Type 1 Diabetes and Chest Infection

Diagnosis: Community-acquired pneumonia in type 1 diabetes mellitus

Smoking Cessation in a Patient with Epilepsy

Diagnosis: Nicotine dependence

Symptomatic UTI in a 30-Week Pregnancy

Diagnosis: Symptomatic urinary tract infection in pregnancy

Type 2 diabetes with renal impairment: prescribing an antidiabetic agent

Diagnosis: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with renal impairment

Type 2 diabetes with stage 3 chronic kidney disease

Diagnosis: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with stage 3 chronic kidney disease

Urate-lowering therapy after a second gout flare in a patient on azathioprine

Diagnosis: Recurrent gout

Urinary sepsis: empirical intravenous antibiotics including gentamicin in an obese patient with renal impairment

Diagnosis: Sepsis of urinary source

VTE Prophylaxis in a Bariatric Patient Undergoing Hip Replacement

Diagnosis: Osteoarthritis of right hip, awaiting total hip replacement