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...
by Eric Christianson | Jan 13, 2016 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Renal, Urology, and Electrolytes Case Studies
JT is a 66 year old male with a past medical history of hypertension and GERD. His current medications include hydrochlorothiazide, lisinopril, nifedipine, and omeprazole. JT has been having significant facial pain and is diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia. So...
by Eric Christianson | Jan 10, 2016 | Personal Stories From The Front Lines of Clinical Pharmacy
I’ve been really excited about this blog post. I posted goals for 2015 about a year ago, and here we are. Did we achieve them? Yes, and then some. I’m really happy about that. One of my favorite quotes is from Zig Ziglar, “if you aim at nothing,...
