by Eric Christianson | Feb 3, 2016 | Polypharmacy Cases And The Prescribing Cascade
Why are anticholinergics on the naughty list of medications in the elderly (Beer’s criteria)? Side effects. Side effects of anticholinergics can be very troubling. Here’s a list of 6 big ones to remember including an example of the prescribing cascade...
by Eric Christianson | Jan 31, 2016 | Polypharmacy Cases And The Prescribing Cascade
Constipation is often a chronic problem in the elderly and there are many diseases and obviously many medications that can cause constipation. There are ways to try to minimize pill burden in this patient population when reducing the actual number may not be...
by Eric Christianson | Jan 27, 2016 | Personal Stories From The Front Lines of Clinical Pharmacy
Mistakes happen in healthcare, it doesn’t take an expert to tell you that. I always say that you can tell a lot from a medication list. If someone is on 5 blood pressure medications, it probably tells you that they have high blood pressure. If someone is on...
by Eric Christianson | Jan 20, 2016 | Long Term Care Consultant Pharmacist Education and Information, Polypharmacy Cases And The Prescribing Cascade
This is often one of the most challenging questions in geriatrics: When should we discontinue statins in the elderly? I’ve been asked this question several times, and there are a lot of factors that go into my assessment as to whether a statin should be...
by Eric Christianson | Jan 17, 2016 | Medication Errors, Personal Stories From The Front Lines of Clinical Pharmacy
I see so many mistakes when it comes to dosage forms. More often than not, it doesn’t result in any issues for the patient, but there is always the potential. Here’s 3 classic dosage form mistakes that I see all the time. MS Contin – this...
