Telehealth Nursing, Long-term Acute Care and Episode 405

The dangers of Loperamide toxicity for patients abusing this drug and we have two more excellent critical care nurse interviews from May NTI 2016 conference in New Orleans. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it. It’s the Nursing Show.

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Welcome to the Show

Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the Nursing Show podcast for nurses, by nurses. I’m your host Jamie Davis and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for checking out the show this week. First up, in this week’s nursing news items, we are joined by our good friend Lisa Booze from the Maryland Poison Center to talk about Imodium or Loperamide as a drug of abuse.

Then in this week’s special interviews from the AACN critical care nurses conference in May I have Lisa-Mae Williams joining me for a talk about tele-ICU nursing. I’m also joined by Nurse Christi Sifri who chats with me about Long Term Acute Care facilities. We’ll have that and more later in this episode after the news.

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News:

Loperamide is a nonprescription medicine for diarrhea known as Imodium® and also sold as generic products. What you might not know is that it has peripheral opioid receptor activity and is gaining attention as a drug with abuse potential. In therapeutic doses, it’s not expected to cause central nervous system effects because a protein (P-glycoprotein) that pumps drugs out of cells prevents it from crossing the blood-brain barrier. And so, sedation, euphoria, and respiratory depression are not seen in therapeutic doses.