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Non-Specific Leg Weakness – Medication Induced?
A 72 year old male has a past medical history of CHF, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, GERD, and osteoarthritis. He has had complaints of non-specific leg weakness. He does also report that it is...
Bariatric Surgery and Long Acting Medications
Many patients will have bariatric surgery which will likely shorten the length of the GI tract. It is important to remember what impact this will have on the use of medications and many clinicians...
How Long Should We Do GI Prophylaxis?
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5 Clinical Pearls – Antipsychotics
Selection of antipsychotics is challenging, and in my experience, you never know for sure which medication will work for each patient. Here’s a few important clinical pearls regarding the use of...
How Half-life May Affect Antidepressant Selection
Hopefully with this scenario, I'm going to teach you how half-life may affect antidepressant selection. Adherence to antidepressant therapy is a huge issue for our patients. It is often very...
Is Loperamide the Next Drug of Abuse?
I always had this weird feeling in pharmacy school about loperamide (Imodium). I remember learning about it when we were taught about opioids. At the time, I couldn’t help but think why isn’t this...
Primidone and Latuda Interaction
A 35 year old male with a history of schizophrenia was recently diagnosed with essential tremor. He was tried on propranolol with no apparent benefit. Following the trial of propranolol, he was...
Oral Vancomycin for Cellulitis
Vancomycin has complex pharmacokinetics. I can recall a case where I saw oral vancomycin for cellulitis. The likely causative organism of the cellulitis was MRSA. This patient was fairly complex...
Severe Asthma Medication Review
You can't tell everything from a medication list, but you can certainly begin to formulate questions and identify possible areas of concern. What do you notice that seems a little wacky? Here's a...
Which Medications Should be Discontinued in Hospice Patients?
A 95 year old female has recently entered a hospice program. Whenever a patient is enrolled in hospice, it is very important to assess the medication regimen and identify medications that are no...
Study Materials For Pharmacists
