[NPInfo] Chantix

[Joyce Fontana]

It is very easy to report an adverse (or suspected) drug reaction to 
Medwatch. Important for us to be adding to the FDA database.

http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/how.htm

Joyce
Durango, CO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <prispunnyfnp at metrocast.net>
To: <npinfo at nurse.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] Chantix


> 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:
> -----------------
> 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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