Standard Medical Table

Standard Medical Table
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The classification of drugs is crucial for physicians and consumers. In particular, a standard medical table depicts the name of medications, their dosages, side effects, and treatment recommendations. Healthcare providers ensure that they explain how drugs should be used, particularly their dosages and possible side effects. They also explain to patients why they should not mix specific drugs since they can have detrimental health impacts. As such, drug tables are crucial since they prevent severe side effects and caution consumers about which medications cannot be combined. They are useful guides when making treatment decisions. The paper focuses on the significance of a standard medical table, how it is used for safety precautions, and what is valuable in a drug table. Moreover, it gives an example of a drug table that offers a minimum of ten medications that have been covered from Module 1 to Module 4.
The details provided on a standard medical table are crucial and facilitate patients’ safety when using the prescribed drugs. Healthcare providers prescribe medicines to patients by using electronic or paper prescriptions. Drug tables guide these professionals when prescribing medications to avoid possible side effects, particularly those associated with drug interactions. Medication prescriptions indicate the name of the drug, dosage, and relevant additional information, such as when the medicine should be taken to promote its effectiveness or what other drugs cannot be combined with it (Dietrich, Hersberger, & Arnet, 2020). In addition, other relevant information includes the storage temperature. Global organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), usually generate a list of how essential medicines should be used in managing various health conditions. Some of the drug tables offered by the WHO show how preoperative medicines, anesthetics, pain medication, and anti-allergics should be used. For example, ibuprofen should not be prescribed to children with less than three months. The medication can be in oral liquid 200 mg/5 mL or 200 mg; 400 mg; or 600 mg (World Health Organization, 2019). Based on the WHO list of medicines, paracetamol is not recommended for use as an anti-inflammatory due to the absence of a proven benefit. As such, the information indicated on standard medical tables is vital to ensure that healthcare providers give proper prescriptions that enhance the treatment process.
The lack of effective standard medical tables can lead to more harm than good to sick people. Healthcare providers would not know how to prescribe drugs, especially if they are dispensing multiple medications to be taken by a patient. In addition, people should not know how to use over-the-counter drugs, whose prescriptions are written on the packages. Mark 2:17 says “It is not healthy who need a doctor, but the sick” (NIV, 1973, Mark 2:17). The reason why Jesus recommends that sick individuals should visit doctors for treatment is that they will be diagnosed and treated to overcome suffering. Moreover, physicians are knowledgeable about how medications should be prescribed to avoid potential side effects. Standard medical tables facilitate patient safety by guaranteeing the rational use of drugs that are appropriate to individuals’ clinical conditions (Religion & Pakulska, 2022). A standard medical table comprises crucial information, such as the name of the medications, dosages, appropriate age, possible side effects, and vital treatment recommendations. Besides, the irrational use of medications has been a significant issue internationally and drug tables are essential resources to prevent it (Alehegn et al., 2021). That is why large global organizations, such as WHO, ensure to come up with safe practices for drug use to eliminate the problem. Drug manufacturers are not allowed to distribute any medications without a standard medical table to show how they should be used and stored to enhance their usage or treatment effectiveness.
The following is an example ...