Mr. Royce Meidlinger is a 78-year-old male who was admitted on 11/12/05 with ADMISSION MEDICATIONS including Atenolol 25 mg daily, allopurinol 300 mg daily, and Flomax 0.8 mg daily. Cardiovascularly, he was on aspirin and had a pacemaker for sick sinus and was saturating well on 2 liters of oxygen delivered by Dobbhoff. Respiratorily, white count at preop baseline was afebrile completing 21 day course of linezolid for EC bacteremia and chest x-ray improved after adding low-dose Lasix. Renally, there was a postoperative increase in creatinine requiring dopamine 2 mcg, continued high chest tube output and an official echo report showed moderate TR, with no changes from prior echos. Hematology was treated with aspirin and anticoagulation and he had left upper extremity DVT as well, was started on argatroban, PTT to be therapeutic, with argatroban dose increased from 0.1 to 0.2, bridging to Coumadin, and argatroban dose reduced to maintain PTT of 50. He had profuse GI bleeding requiring 3 units of packed red blood cells, 2 units packed red blood cells with improvement in hematocrit, NG-tube aspiration with melena, and was HIT positive with worsening clinical syndrome. Foley was put in place with Lasix for reduced urine output and left hand demarcated with argatroban dose increased from 0.1 to 0.2, bridging to Coumadin, restarting Coumadin, postop day #51, patient went to OR with plastics for toe finger amputations/left hand debridement, holding tube feeds, was on triple antibiotic therapy for sputum/blood culture, and rehabilitation when restarting Coumadin. Postop day #54
Has the patient had multiple atenolol prescriptions
Atenolol 25 mg daily, allopurinol 300 mg daily,