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The Pharmaceutical Safety Terminal, PST, uses a computer download of the physician's desk reference, PDR, or similar data as one source of reference input. The other primary source of data input is the patient's medical profile. The PST automatically calculates the perceived safety of each medication with the risk factor in the patient's profile. On the side of this approximately 3 inch by 3½ inch device is a green, red, and yellow light. If the red light shows the doctor must realize that the medication is strongly counter indicated. Yellow means use caution and green means there are no exceptional warning signs. The PST slides on the physician's belt so he will carry it at all times. The PST also gives a graphic read out of the possible side effects of each drug typed into the patient's profile. So the doctor can read the specifics of each drug interaction before it is administered to the patient. At the end of the work shift the PST is then plugged into a central computer for any downloads of new data relevant to the drugs or patient's status for the highest possible expectation of patient safety. Critical information can be automatically emailed from the source computer network. If there is a specifically critical new warning, the PST will activate the red light during download for the physician to pay specific attention to this download when he picks up the device at the beginning of his shift. Every medication given to the patient even by another physician must be entered or downloaded in the PST to avoid adverse synergistic effects. Another function of the PST will be to enlist potential antidotes for the wrongly administered drug and what danger signs are for the wrongly administered drug and display phone numbers of the world's top experts in countering the effects for possible personal consultation. Since doctors kill hundreds of thousands of patients by giving them the wrong medication this will sharply reduce deaths and malpractice suits.
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