I just came home from the hospital after three days for a heart cath and stent. The hospital doctor, who I’ve never seen before, told the nurses NOT to give me the meds that have kept me alive for 25 years...atenolol, lisinopril, potassium. My bp went up over 200 and I damn near went into v tach. The crew in the heart cath lab was appalled that I wasn’t given my meds for 48 hours. Fortunately, a doctor from my regular cardiologist group came in and straightened it out after the stent was implanted.
I never trust a hospital doctor!
It’s not just a matter of telling the nurses not to give you the meds(as if they could countermand his order and do it anyway)....the meds would not have been available for the nurses to give as the doctor would not have ordered them so that the pharmacy would have authorized their release so that the nurses could give them.
I’m glad a cardiologist from your group came in. However, there are other ways to have treated your blood pressure, that the hospitalist doctor should have implemented, if he felt your old meds should not have been given.
He didn’t treat the elevated BP with one of a score of different methods available, so I’d have a real concern as a nurse about that. I’d write him up and frankly would have done so.
VERY scary.
So glad you were finally seen by a cardio doc, from your regular group.