by Eric Christianson | Aug 20, 2014 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
This is arguably one of the greatest challenges in the elderly. I nearly daily get asked questions about behaviors associated with dementia. Often these patients can be aggressive, hit, spit, kick, swear, hallucinate, be sexually inappropriate, or have delusions. I...
by Eric Christianson | Aug 17, 2014 | Gastrointestinal Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls, Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
57 year old patient diagnosed with depression and was initiated on Zoloft (sertraline) 50 mg daily. The physician in this case felt the patient was very depressed, and wanted to titrate the dose up fairly quickly. Zoloft was increased to 100 mg daily after two...
by Eric Christianson | Aug 13, 2014 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Renal, Urology, and Electrolytes Case Studies
78 year old male on a hefty list of medications. The major issue to resolve was a rash that had started about 3-4 weeks ago and was spreading nearly all over the body. I was asked to help out with the case by looking over the meds. There had already been a couple...
by Eric Christianson | Aug 10, 2014 | Cardiovascular Case Studies, Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists
If you haven’t subscribed yet for future updates and access to more free clinical medication content, please Click Here to do so! I’m going to cover a couple points tonight, and let you guys help with anything else you’d be concerned about by looking...
by Eric Christianson | Aug 6, 2014 | Cardiovascular Case Studies, Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists
A 64 year old male patient was struggling with blood pressure management, usually running in the 160’s range (systolic). He was already taking lisinopril 40 mg daily and had failed at implementing lifestyle changes up to this point. Procardia...
