A 47 year old African American female came into the emergency room with a chief complaint stating that “my throat was closing.” The patient had also been coughing with multiple episodes of vomiting throughout the night. Twice last month, the patient experienced a...
Tonight’s medication list review is a bit shorter than usual – Here’s a couple things I’m going to be digging into. My goal is to get you to think critically about medication management, not necessarily give you a right or wrong answer, so...
I really want to encourage younger healthcare professionals to ask questions, and realize that no matter how experienced you are, there are going to be times throughout your career where you don’t know an answer. There will also be times where caring...
A patient had some blood loss during a surgery – very common. The patient’s hemoglobin dropped from about 12.5 to 9.8 and the prescriber wanted to improve that hemoglobin back to baseline prior to the blood loss. Iron is a necessary component in the...
