Abstract
Abstract Aim Optimization of diabetic medications around the time of operation is critical to avoid complications, hence we aimed to conduct an audit to review perioperative diabetic medication prescribing. Method Drug charts for peri-operative cardiac and thoracic patients were reviewed retrospectively on Medchart, a local electronic system used for prescribing medications. The omission or adjustment of oral anti-diabetic medications and insulin prescriptions were recorded. Results Over a one-month period, the prescriptions of 104 patients were recorded with an average age of 65.8 and out of which 21 patients were diabetic. Conclusions Our Audit demonstrated errors in perioperative diabetic medication prescribing. We focused our intervention by circulating a poster depicting the guidelines around the doctors and ANP offices. We did a re-audit in two months’ time to check the adherence. These are the findings we found in the re-audit for 101 patients: -
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