by Eric Christianson | Aug 6, 2017 | Writing Medication Recommendations For Pharmacists
A pharmacist’s recommendation can be life saving, I’ve seen them. Pharmacist recommendations can be aggravating and borderline enfuriating to some providers. I’ve seen those as well. Writing good recommendations takes time and effeort, as well as...
by Eric Christianson | Aug 2, 2017 | Drug Interaction Case Studies and Education For Pharmacists
There are two major concerns that I think about when it comes to codeine drug interactions and pharmacokinetics. One is pharmacogenetic differences, and the other is the potential for drug interactions. I can’t recall a recommendation or a situation where I...
by Eric Christianson | Jul 30, 2017 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Neurology, Pain, and Musculoskeletal Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
In a previous post, I discussed the rare situation of patients being on both gabapentin and pregabalin and some possible explanations for this scenario. That prompted someone to ask me how to do a conversion of gabapentin to pregabalin. Let’s set up the...
by Eric Christianson | Jul 26, 2017 | Drug Interaction Case Studies and Education For Pharmacists
The cyclobenzaprine and SSRI interaction is usually one that flags on drug interaction programs. I’ll look at a brief scenario and some questions to ponder. A 68 year old female was recently prescribed cyclobenzaprine for neck pain. She is also concurrently...
by Eric Christianson | Jul 23, 2017 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists
I get a lot of unique questions as a clinical pharmacist. A question I received recently was about the possibility of medication induced yawning. With now years of experience under my belt, I’ve definitely become comfortable with saying, “I don’t...
