by Eric Christianson | May 30, 2018 | Long Term Care Consultant Pharmacist Education and Information
Assessing medications in a frequent faller is something I do on a pretty regular basis. There are often multifactoral reasons for the falls, but as a pharmacist, our obvious focus is on the medications and how they might complicated our frequent faller’s...
by Eric Christianson | May 27, 2018 | Drug Interaction Case Studies and Education For Pharmacists
Here’s a case scenario involving the Prozac Wellbutrin interaction. A 64 year old male has severe depression. He is currently on Remeron 15 mg once daily, Prozac 80 mg once daily, and Abilify 10 mg once daily. He has been tried on just about every other SSRI...
by Eric Christianson | May 23, 2018 | Long Term Care Consultant Pharmacist Education and Information
There’s been a recent update from CMS that has started to be implemented. The F-Tags have been given a little facelift and renumbering. I’m a consultant pharmacist, so I’m going to focus on the changes in Pharmacy Services F-Tags. The pharmacy...
by Eric Christianson | May 20, 2018 | Drug Interaction Case Studies and Education For Pharmacists
In the patient on numerous medications, drug interactions are always a constant concern. In the scenario below, I lay out some strategies to monitor the bupropion nortriptyline interaction with a brief description of what might happen on account of this drug-drug...
by Eric Christianson | May 16, 2018 | Polypharmacy Cases And The Prescribing Cascade
Anticholinergic side effects are something that I see on nearly a daily basis. I’ve become accustomed at identifying these and trying to come up with a game plan to minimize these adverse effects. Here’s a few strategies for things I look out for on a...
