A prospective study was conducted in a tertiary care teaching hospital at Palakkad to identify and evaluate the prescription pattern of drugs among stroke patients and find out the supportive therapeutic agents in stroke. Collected data with the help of data collection form from general medicine department through daily ward rounds and analysed the prescribing pattern of drugs. Also focussed on the drugs that were given for treatment of the post stroke complication and risk factors. All the stroke cases were included in the study and the patients with CKD and cancer are excluded. Totally 211 subjects were enrolled in our study, from that 85.78% of patients prescribed with lipid lowering agents and 81.99% to antiplatelet agents. On the basis of antibiotic monotherapy 46.38% received ceftriaxone and 14.49% received cefixim. In case of combination antibiotics 41.38% of them prescribed with cephalosporins and pencillin combination. Mostly prescribed neuroprotective agent was citicoline 56.40%. Certain antipsychiatric drugs also prescribed for stroke patients to prevent the complications, 34.42% of patients prescribed with alprazolam and 13.11% haloperidol. In case of memantine based therapy it reduces the hospital length of stay about 5 days and ceftriaxone reduce it about 6 days. Mostly prescribed drugs are lipid lowering agents and antiplatelet agents. To reduce the neuronal injury citicoline and antiglutaminergic agent such as memantine were given. Antibiotics prescribed to reduce the post stroke complications.
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