by Eric Christianson | Jul 6, 2016 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
Hopefully with this scenario, I’m going to teach you how half-life may affect antidepressant selection. Adherence to antidepressant therapy is a huge issue for our patients. It is often very challenging in the early stages of treatment to convince patients to...
by Eric Christianson | Jul 3, 2016 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
I always had this weird feeling in pharmacy school about loperamide (Imodium). I remember learning about it when we were taught about opioids. At the time, I couldn’t help but think why isn’t this a controlled substance if it has opioid activity? I’m sure I learned...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 29, 2016 | Drug Interaction Case Studies and Education For Pharmacists
A 35 year old male with a history of schizophrenia was recently diagnosed with essential tremor. He was tried on propranolol with no apparent benefit. Following the trial of propranolol, he was switched to primidone 50 mg twice daily. His current medications...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 26, 2016 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Infectious Disease and Oncology Case Studies
Vancomycin has complex pharmacokinetics. I can recall a case where I saw oral vancomycin for cellulitis. The likely causative organism of the cellulitis was MRSA. This patient was fairly complex and hospitalized for a few days. Upon hospitalization, the patient was...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 22, 2016 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Respiratory Case Studies
You can’t tell everything from a medication list, but you can certainly begin to formulate questions and identify possible areas of concern. What do you notice that seems a little wacky? Here’s a patient with severe asthma, on multiple medications: Advair...
