{"id":572,"date":"2000-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/home-safety-medicines-medical-equipment-and-poisonous-products\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:42:10","slug":"home-safety-medicines-medical-equipment-and-poisonous-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/home-safety-medicines-medical-equipment-and-poisonous-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Home &#038; Safety &#8211;  Medicines, Medical Equipment And Poisonous Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\"><p><b>Medicines, Medical Equipment And Poisonous Products<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you know the proper management and operation of all medical equipment?<\/li>\n<li>Do you understand the safety requirements to operate the equipment properly?<\/li>\n<li>Do you know the proper cleaning of the equipment?<\/li>\n<li>Do you understand the hazards of the equipment and how to avoid them?<\/li>\n<li>Do you know who to contact in case there is a problem with the equipment?<\/li>\n<li><b>If Oxygen Is Used<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Are you aware of the danger of smoking where oxygen equipment is present? Is there a no smoking sign posted?<\/li>\n<li>Do you know how to store the cylinders properly?<\/li>\n<li>Do you know the correct way to administer oxygen and in what amounts?<\/li>\n<li><b>Medications<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Make sure all old or expired medications are thrown away.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure medication covers are easily opened if your loved one must take their own medications.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure medications are clearly hidden if your loved one is not coherent or if children are present.<\/li>\n<li><b>Poisons<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Make sure all poisonous substances are out of view and reach.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure all toxic products are marked with a contrasting tape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts around Medicines, Medical Equipment And Poisonous Products for the elderly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[38],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-safety-and-modification"],"authors":[{"term_id":38,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"gail-mitchell","display_name":"Gail Mitchell","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}