Professional Guidance for Differing Drug Therapies
First DataBank's Drug-Condition Precautions Modules offer guidance for professionals in making appropriate decisions about drug therapy in pediatric, geriatric, pregnant, or lactating patients.
Pediatric Precautions
Pediatric patients can be very sensitive to drug therapy, especially within specific age ranges. With this module, you'll have access to valuable information for minimizing adverse effects. It provides everything you need to generate comprehensive messages when problems may exist.
Geriatric Precautions
This module enables you to create warning messages about drug use in geriatric patients. It gives you access to extensive geriatric precaution information, including:
- Severity level and contraindication information for the precaution
- Specific organ systems associated with an adverse effect
- A brief summary of the particular precaution
Pregnancy Precautions
This module enables the healthcare professional to recognize drug therapy that may not be appropriate for pregnant women. It provides not only all of the FDA's precautions, but also additional research as well.
Our staff of clinical pharmacists continually reviews the primary and secondary literature for any drugs that warrant precautions. When there is no FDA designation, you can rely on First DataBank's supplementary warnings when studies reveal that a precaution may be prudent.
This module automatically provides information about contraindications, potential risks, and precautions—at the system designer's discretion.
Lactation Precautions
This module creates warnings about the use of drugs by nursing mothers. The warnings provided enable the healthcare professional to make informed decisions about altering a patient's drug therapy when potential problems exist. This module encompasses everything needed to generate comprehensive messages for the healthcare professional. It supplies four basic pieces of information about drug use in a nursing mother:
- Reports if a contraindication, precaution, or lack of risk has been documented in available studies
- Establishes whether it is known if a particular drug is excreted in breast milk
- Provides data on whether or not the excreted drug affects the infant
- Gives details about the particular precaution