by Eric Christianson | Sep 27, 2017 | Writing Medication Recommendations For Pharmacists
If you haven’t come across a situation where you don’t know what to do, you probably haven’t been asked enough questions. Making recommendations is not easy sometimes. Getting questions when you don’t know the answer is part of life and...
by Eric Christianson | Sep 24, 2017 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Respiratory Case Studies
I work with a lot of geriatric patients in my practice on respiratory medications and I get pretty concerned when I start to see patients with COPD, asthma, or other respiratory diseases who have frequent exacerbations that are causing emergency department visits or...
by Eric Christianson | Sep 20, 2017 | Drug Interaction Case Studies and Education For Pharmacists
Patients often don’t understand drug interactions. In this scenario, I’ll discuss the statin and grapefruit juice interaction and really what we can do about it. For more clinical pearls on statins, be sure to check out this podcast! Upon assessment of a...
by Eric Christianson | Sep 17, 2017 | Gastrointestinal Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls, Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Polypharmacy Cases And The Prescribing Cascade
Figuring out how and when to taper a PPI is a difficult question sometimes. Here’s a scenario and some of the items that I would look at. A 45 year old female has a past medical history of: GERD Hypertension Constipation Anemia Osteoarthritis With this minimal...
by Eric Christianson | Sep 13, 2017 | Cardiovascular Case Studies, Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists
Here’s a case scenario of possible medication induced QTc prolongation and some thoughts as to what I might do about it. The med list: Amitriptyline 150 mg once daily Geodon 80 mg BID Metformin 500 mg BID Ondansetron 8 mg TID prn Gabapentin 300 mg TID Ativan 1...
