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Amiodarone is a medication that you need to pay attention to. It has numerous clinical quirks that can cause serious harm if one is not aware of them. Here’s a list of the amiodarone boxed warnings as well as some other clinical practice pearls. Amiodarone Boxed Warning #1: Pro-Arrhythmic Amiodarone is classified as an antiarrhythmic […]
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Loop diuretics are the mainstay in removing fluid off the body in patients with heart failure. They are very common in clinical practice. What should you think about when monitoring loop diuretics? Monitoring Loop Diuretics – Benefit? One of the challenges with polypharmacy in our geriatric patient population is to continually assess the benefit of […]
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As a medication expert, being up to date on adverse effects is essential! I recently stumbled into this review article on drug-induced Lupus and I had to share it and some of my thoughts. Symptoms of Drug-Induced Lupus Patients are usually pretty good about reporting significant adverse effects or potential adverse effects. This is especially […]
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Medications and renal failure can go hand in hand. This is of course if we are talking about the right medications. There are numerous medications that can cause an acute renal failure situation, but many times in practice, it is due to a cumulative risk. Here’s a case scenario to ponder… An 88-year-old female is […]
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I was recently reviewing some clinical pearls on clozapine and was really surprised that there were five boxed warnings! After reading them over, I did recall all of the potential negative adverse effects that this drug can cause but did not remember that they were all boxed warnings. Here’s the list of clozapine’s boxed warnings: […]
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