by Eric Christianson | Sep 21, 2016 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Neurology, Pain, and Musculoskeletal Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
KL is a 79 year old male with a history of Parkinson’s disease. About 2 weeks ago, he had been having worsening symptoms of rigidity and his wife is concerned with this newer development. At that time, his Sinemet dosing was increased from 25/100 TID to 50/200 TID....
by Eric Christianson | Jul 10, 2016 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
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 antipsychotics. Typical (1st generation) antipsychotics are generally...
by Eric Christianson | Jul 6, 2016 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
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 challenging in the early stages of treatment to convince patients to...
by Eric Christianson | Jul 3, 2016 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
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 a controlled substance if it has opioid activity? I’m sure I learned...
by Eric Christianson | May 15, 2016 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
I’ve been seeing stories all over the place about the heroin epidemic. It is terribly sad. I watched an episode of 60 minutes recently where they were talking about the epidemic and whether heroin addicts should be treated as criminals or medical patients. That is a...
by Eric Christianson | Oct 28, 2015 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Psychiatry and Addiction Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
When using antidepressants, one of the major reasons why we select a medication is the side effects that medication has. In geriatrics where weight loss can be problematic, you may see Remeron (mirtazapine) used to help stimulate appetite and help a patient’s...
