{"id":1020,"date":"2012-11-14T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2014-12-30T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T14:34:40","slug":"many-hospital-patients-get-too-much-acetaminophen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Many hospital patients get too much acetaminophen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Genevra Pittman\u00a0\u00a0 Reuters, November 13, 2012\u00a0\u00a0NEW YORK (Reuters Health) &#8211; In a new study from two Boston hospitals, one in every 15 patients treated with <a id=\"HEDAR000002157\" title=\"Acetaminophen (drug)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/topic\/health\/drugs-medicines\/acetaminophen-%28drug%29-HEDAR000002157.topic\">acetaminophen<\/a> got more than the maximum daily recommended dose at least once.\u00a0 Acetaminophen &#8211; sold as <a id=\"HEDAR000002157160\" title=\"Tylenol (drug)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/topic\/health\/drugs-medicines\/tylenol-%28drug%29-HEDAR000002157160.topic\">Tylenol<\/a> &#8211; is a common painkiller on its own, but also an ingredient in stronger narcotics such as <a id=\"HEDAR000004\" title=\"Percocet (drug)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/topic\/health\/drugs-medicines\/percocet-%28drug%29-HEDAR000004.topic\">Percocet<\/a> and <a id=\"HEDAR000003\" title=\"Vicodin (drug)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/topic\/health\/drugs-medicines\/vicodin-%28drug%29-HEDAR000003.topic\">Vicodin<\/a>. So without careful monitoring, it&#8217;s not always obvious how much a patient has taken.\u00a0 To protect against liver damage from an acetaminophen overdose, the <a id=\"ORGOV0000136161\" title=\"Food and Drug Administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/topic\/health\/food-drug-administration-ORGOV0000136161.topic\">U.S. Food and Drug Administration<\/a> sets the maximum daily dose at 4 grams for most people or 3 grams for people 65 and older and those with <a id=\"HEDAI0000092\" title=\"Liver Disease\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/topic\/health\/diseases-illnesses\/liver-disease-HEDAI0000092.topic\">liver disease<\/a>.\u00a0 Dr. Robert Fontana, a liver specialist from the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, called the new findings &#8220;a bit alarming.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/11\/13\/us-acetaminophen-idUSBRE8AC0W320121113\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genevra Pittman\u00a0\u00a0 Reuters, November 13, 2012\u00a0\u00a0NEW YORK (Reuters Health) &#8211; In a new study from two Boston hospitals, one in every 15 patients treated with acetaminophen got more than the <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1020\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,59],"tags":[484,83,486,446,485],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-acetaminophen","tag-adverse-event","tag-drug-safety","tag-overtreatment","tag-tylenol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}