Monthly Archives: May 2018
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 situation. An 81 year old female has had an increasing number of falls. […]
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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 and SNRI without any benefit. He is still […]
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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 services F-Tags run between F755-F761. There are now seven possible pharmacy services F-Tags. I’ll […]
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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 interaction. A 58 year old female has refractory depression and is managed by psychiatry. […]
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