Overdose in elderly careBy Kate M from Manchester UK on June 05, 2006 Category: Promazine hydrochloride My Mum is 82 and has Alzheimers. She has been in respite care for the past two weeks and was given promazine on a regular basis (5ml morning and evening). She had a fall and split her head open. Two days later she was rushed to hospital unable to be roused. She has been in intensive care for 3 days and after many tests the doctors suspect that she was made 'unconscious' by the promazine. She is otherwise medically ok. The care home drug records show that she was not given any more than 5ml each morning and evening, but the family are concerned to know why she has been in such a state of deep sleep if the promazine was not administered wrongly. She is now awake and seems ok, but we still want to know why she had to sepnd 2 days unable to come to cosnciousness. Should she continue with promazine or should we ask for it to be stopped altogether (she's not on it now that she's in hospital, but we don't know what to do when she is discharged). The head injury was scanned when she was taken back to hopsital and there's no sign of any neurological damage. |
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