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Polypharmacy

Mrs. Z is a 79-year-old woman admitted last night to your acute inpatient rehabilitation unit after hospitalization for a right-sided CVA. Her past medical history includes the CVA, HTN, insomnia, hypercholesterolemia, congestive heart failure, mild dementia, osteoarthritis, back pain, depression, and post-herpetic neuralgia. This morning at the therapy gym, you found the patient asleep in the standing frame walker.

Her medications include:

Aspirin 81 mg PO daily Valsartan 160 mg PO daily Atenolol 50 mg PO dailySimvastatin 20 mg PO QHS Celecoxib 200 mg PO daily Benazepril 20 mg PO daily Diphenhydramine 25 mg PO Q6h PRN itching Pregabalin