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Namenda if the pt has Alzheimer's....but

Posted By: sm on 2008-01-03
In Reply to: Med for COPD. Atrovent and s/l amendia. - Jan

Subject: Namenda if the pt has Alzheimer's....but

but Atrovent and albuterol WOULD be for COPD, other poster is correct....but your s/l *amendia* made me immediately think perhaps the pt has Alzheimer's and could also be on Namenda.....





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Alzheimer's dementia
Alzheimer's sclerosis
Alzheimer's syndrome
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English physician and paleontologist, born April 11, 1755, Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London; died 1824, London.

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Parkinson's crisis
Exaggeration of the characteristics of parkinsonism associated with acute anxiety.

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Parkinson's facies
The immobile, expressionless, masklike facial characteristic of parkinsonism.