by Eric Christianson | May 21, 2014 | Personal Stories From The Front Lines of Clinical Pharmacy
Guest Post via – Luka Tehovnik, who is a final year pharmacy student from Slovenia! You can find his blog here: http://thoughtsbecamewords.wordpress.com/ 59 y/o female had a history of recurrent spontaneous hematoma, non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, and...
by Eric Christianson | May 18, 2014 | Polypharmacy Cases And The Prescribing Cascade
You’re probably aware I’m an advocate for simple, rationale use of medications. This means that at times we might consider reducing or discontinuing medications that may not be appropriate anymore for various reasons. There is a right way to discontinue...
by Eric Christianson | May 14, 2014 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Neurology, Pain, and Musculoskeletal Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
I frequently have the challenge of sifting through hospital records to try to identify what’s going on with a new admission to a long term care facility. It can be a struggle to find pertinent information. Delirium frequently happens in the elderly due to...
by Eric Christianson | May 11, 2014 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Neurology, Pain, and Musculoskeletal Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
88 year old gentleman was having a difficult time with management of gout. He was on chronic allopurinol therapy and had to use frequent as needed NSAIDs for repeat flares. Steroid bursts also had to be used at times to treat acute flares. Remember that there are...
by Eric Christianson | May 7, 2014 | Long Term Care Consultant Pharmacist Education and Information
I’ve had the opportunity to work at over 50+ different healthcare facilities. I’ve had the unfortunate opportunity to deal with my fair share of diversion and potential diversion cases. It’s not fun. Drug diversion can get complex, but there are...
