by Eric Christianson | Jun 13, 2018 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Gastrointestinal Case Studies
In this case scenario, I’m going to demonstrate and unusual side effect of galactorrhea. Reglan induced galactorrhea is a possibility due to the mechanism of dopamine blockade. The case: A 46 year old female obese female has a history of type 2 diabetes. She...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 10, 2018 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
Jiamin Liau is a clinical pharmacist in Australia who donated this piece on opioid replacement therapy! Ms DF, 27 years old, has been on opioid replacement therapy in the past. Treatment ceased about 20 months ago when she fell pregnant. Stating that she had started...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 6, 2018 | Hematology and Immunology Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls, Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists
In a recent small study where taking iron every other day was given versus once daily iron, they demonstrated an improved absorption. How should we apply this in real world practice? In my practice, iron is used quite often and occasionally I will see iron dosed...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 3, 2018 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Endocrine Case Studies
Working in geriatrics, you run into a lot of tough questions where there isn’t always a perfect answer. Setting a goal A1C is sometimes one of those challenges. Here’s a scenario where a patient has an A1C of 8.2. Under most conditions, an A1C of 8.2 is...
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...
