Discharge Cocktails

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In thinking ahead to first community attending job next year, I am trying to put together discharge bundles for common chief complaints in an effort to improve patient satisfaction and attempt to help symptoms. Just common OTC or simple prescription remedies that gives the patient SOMETHING to hang their hat on once they leave. For example, for GERD sounding pain, I typically discharge on some combination of protonix/pepcid + Maalox. Other chief complaints that easily come to mind include:

Headache
Adult URI
Pedi URI
MSK pain (traumatic or atraumatic)
Dental pain
Anxiety / Panic attack (is anyone ever giving extremely short term benzos for this?)
Low risk EtOH withdrawal

What is your practice out there???

 

[canigetawhatwhat]

In thinking ahead to first community attending job next year, I am trying to put together discharge bundles for common chief complaints in an effort to improve patient satisfaction and attempt to help symptoms. Just common OTC or simple prescription remedies that gives the patient SOMETHING to hang their hat on once they leave. For example, for GERD sounding pain, I typically discharge on some combination of protonix/pepcid + Maalox. Other chief complaints that easily come to mind include:

Headache
Adult URI
Pedi URI
MSK pain (traumatic or atraumatic)
Dental pain
Anxiety / Panic attack (is anyone ever giving extremely short term benzos for this?)
Low risk EtOH withdrawal

What is your practice out there???

Migraine- IVF, compazine, dex, benadryl discharge
Adult URI- sudafed, dex, tessalon
Peds Uri- motrin
Msk pain- atraumatic is a little more of a work up. Traumatic- if real, 5 norco, motrin
Dental pain- pen v k
Anxiety- vistaril
Low risk etoh w/d- very rare. Librum taper

 

[SoCuteMD]

Asthma - steroids, albuterol inhaler, steroid inhaler (I have started giving this as part of my discharge of asthma patients)
Anaphylaxis - steroids, benadryl, a non-sedating histamine blocker, epi pen

 

[deleted109597]

A SoCute sighting!

 

[Daiphon]

AOM = motrin/apap (I like the parents to have the *right* dose), delayed ABx Rx to prevent return.

Semper Brunneis Pallium

 

[engineeredout]

In thinking ahead to first community attending job next year, I am trying to put together discharge bundles for common chief complaints in an effort to improve patient satisfaction and attempt to help symptoms. Just common OTC or simple prescription remedies that gives the patient SOMETHING to hang their hat on once they leave. For example, for GERD sounding pain, I typically discharge on some combination of protonix/pepcid + Maalox. Other chief complaints that easily come to mind include:

Headache
Adult URI
Pedi URI
MSK pain (traumatic or atraumatic)
Dental pain
Anxiety / Panic attack (is anyone ever giving extremely short term benzos for this?)
Low risk EtOH withdrawal

What is your practice out there???

Naproxen
Naproxen
Motrin
Naproxen
Naproxen
Nothing
2 days Valium (built in taper)

 

[GeneralVeers]

Percocet #120 for everyone regardless of complaint. It definitely satisfies.

 

[gutonc]

Low risk EtOH withdrawal

$5 to get them back to the bar and a pint/shot of whatever's cheapest?