by Eric Christianson | Apr 16, 2014 | Personal Stories From The Front Lines of Clinical Pharmacy
We all know that Viagra (sildenafil) is used for erectile dysfunction (most of the time), but this elderly patient was seeking it for an off label use. This gentleman was frequently asking his doctor and the nurses that worked with him if he could get “a little...
by Eric Christianson | Apr 13, 2014 | Cardiovascular Case Studies, Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists
A patient was admitted for a rehab stay at a long term care facility. They chief complaint was weakness and muscle achiness that would not resolve. While looking back at the patient history and medication list, it was clear that nothing was helping this patient. ...
by Eric Christianson | Apr 9, 2014 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Neurology, Pain, and Musculoskeletal Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
An elderly patient was on Zyrtec (cetirizine) 10 mg at betime for allergies and was also on Ditropan (oxybutynin) 15 mg three times daily for urinary incontinence. Ditropan is one of those classic older anticholinergic medications that isn’t so great in the...
by Eric Christianson | Apr 6, 2014 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists
I can’t help but smile when providers dictate that a patient has a diagnosis of polypharmacy. Let’s cure that condition! These case studies are kind of challenging because you could go a few different directions, but they do certainly provide some...
by Eric Christianson | Apr 5, 2014 | Pharmacist Legislative Advocacy
I played a ton of baseball growing up and I want to use a baseball analogy to help describe where I feel we are at in this process. Tie ballgame, there’s two outs in the 9th, runner on third. You’ve just hit a high chopper to the shortstop who’s...
