by Eric Christianson | Jul 2, 2014 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Polypharmacy Cases And The Prescribing Cascade
By popular demand, another med review tonight, where I pick out a couple of points to investigate and I let you all have your crack at the list! Both Prilosec and Zantac (ranitidine) being utilized here, would like to look into the GI history and assess if both are...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 29, 2014 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists
A significant clinical medication review for everyone today, where I pick out a couple areas of concern to me and you can help do the rest by adding any comments/thoughts/questions below! There’s plenty to pick on in this one, so I may need a little help to...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 25, 2014 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Renal, Urology, and Electrolytes Case Studies
85 year old male with a recent operation for a knee replacement was discharged on hydrocodone/APAP 5/325 1-2 every four hours as needed as well as Vistaril (hydroxyzine) 25-50 mg every six hours as needed for pain management. Within a couple days of significant prn...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 22, 2014 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine Case Studies
88 y/o female who’s had some difficulty with pain management. She was on scheduled Tylenol (acetaminophen) 1,000 mg twice daily as well as Ultram (tramadol) 50 mg every 6 hours as needed. She had brought up the complaint about her osteoarthritis to her...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 15, 2014 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Neurology, Pain, and Musculoskeletal Case Studies
Many patients and healthcare professionals may not realize that different formulations of a product can have very different pharmacokinetics. Why does pharmacokinetics matter? An 88 year old patient was receiving Namenda (memantine) 5 mg in the morning and 10 mg in...
by Eric Christianson | Jun 8, 2014 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists
Let’s do a med list review, it’s been a while… Remember with these cases, I really try to highlight the most important things I want you to think about. There are multiple things to monitor in these case reviews, as well as multiple patient...
