[NPInfo] Chantix

[prispunnyfnp at metrocast.net]

Not sure if you're familiar with community health centers but while he was
not "My Patient", we all work as a team here and see each others' patients
when the primary cannot.  The couple both are well-known patients to this
practice.  I erroneously stated he was seen by the doc, but it was another
NP who agreed to have our nurse called since this was the request of the
widow.
Hope this clarifies the picture.

Thanks,

Priscilla Merrill

Original Message:
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From:  Nbalkon at aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:44:37 EDT
To: npinfo at nurse.net
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] Chantix


Given the scenario of stroke 3 days post start of Chantix I  would:
 
1. This fellow most likely had an Autopsy.... 
 
2. Given Autopsy, the medical examiner customarily reviews the  case and 
contacts health professionals RT case.
 
3. Finding out what was ascertained through post mortem  examination 
regarding the decedent's "total picture" and any possible link  to Chantix
is the 
place to begin. 
 
4. To do otherwise is supposition and can create an  unnecessary flurry of 
fingerpointing... litigation...etc etc....  The  survivors go through much
as it 
is without having this added layer unless signs  point to this as a 
potential/viable explanation.
 
Nancy Balkon,  PhD, ANP-C, APRN-CS, NPP
Southern New York State Representative --  AANP
Clinical Associate Professor, Stony Brook University School of  Nursing



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