Yangtze Evening News (Reporter Wan Lingyun) After seeing a doctor at Danyang Children's Hospital, after being diagnosed and requiring fluids for 5 consecutive days, why can't the medicine be prescribed at once, and do I need to register and prescribe medicine every day? The family members of the children in Danyang were puzzled by this and questioned that the hospital's approach was not humane enough. The reporter learned that Danyang Children's Hospital is by no means the only one with similar situations during the actual medical treatment process.
In response to this, Danyang Children's Hospital responded that after the patient's condition was diagnosed, the doctor said that the infusion treatment would last for 5 days. This was based on the prediction of the normal treatment outcome of this type of disease, and did not mean that each patient must be treated for 5 days or more. You will definitely be cured after 5 days of treatment.
The following reasons cannot be used to prescribe drugs for 5 days at a time:
First of all, the state, provinces and cities have relevant regulations on intravenous infusion: For example, our provincial health and health regulations stipulate that infusions are not allowed in adult outpatient clinics at level 2 or above hospitals, and only emergency departments can prescribe infusion drugs. For children, due to their special circumstances, infusion conditions are appropriately relaxed, but in principle It is still necessary to formulate corresponding diagnosis and treatment plans based on the condition of each child, and it is impossible to be completely consistent.
Secondly, many drugs (especially injections, etc.) have certain requirements for storage. It is impossible to bring back the drugs for infusion for so many days at once. There are risks such as decreased efficacy, infusion reactions, and even anaphylactic shock due to improper storage.
Furthermore, the effect of each patient's infusion treatment needs to be evaluated in a timely manner. If the patient has poor or no response to the prescribed drug treatment, the doctor can adjust the treatment plan in a timely manner. If it is brought back at once, the therapeutic effect cannot be judged, and there is a risk of delaying the condition, or even missing the best treatment period.
In addition, some patients may improve significantly after a short period of infusion, and may be given oral consolidation therapy in the later stage to reduce the damage to the patient's body caused by intravenous infusion and appropriately reduce the financial burden.