Care So Much
Joined: 06 Aug 2003
Posts: 2
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 9:32 pm Post subject: Hearing Loss from Amikacin
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Has anyone experienced problems with aminoglycoside/antibiotic overdosing?<
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>My father, a hemodialysis patient, received too much amikacin while in the hospital without being properly monitored, and had sudden hearing loss! His quality of life diminshed greatly, and he has been very depressed.<
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>When my father was admitted to the hospital, he had to go to the critical care unit because he was septic and had hypotension. The intensivist ordered that the pharmacist dose the amikacin, but the intensivist seemed to take on the responsibility of monitoring his blood levels of the amikacin. Unfortunately, he did not monitor him closely enough, and my father had ototoxicity!<
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>Was the clinical pharmacist responsible, the intensivist, or primary care physician (in our case it's the nephrologist)?
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Care So Much
Joined: 06 Aug 2003
Posts: 2
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 9:35 pm Post subject: P.S.
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By the way, the intensivist was the one to order the amikacin blood level test, buy my father was only in the critical care unit for a couple days. Thus who was supposed to take over from there? Pharmacist or the primary care?
