One of the most common medication review requests I get from clinical staff in long term care and assisted living facilities is identifying medications that may be contributing to falls. Identifying low blood pressure as a potential contributing factor is usually...
Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) has historically been used on a regular basis for urinary tract infections. That frequency of use changed a few years back when the boxed warnings for serious adverse effects came out. I wanted to provide my top ciprofloxacin clinical pearls that...
There’s always this voice in the back of my head that always cautions me that all that glitters is not gold. After being heralded as the next savior in weight loss by the media, the GLP-1 Agonists/GIP agonists have come under more scrutiny lately in the news. A...
Clindamycin is an antibiotic that has been around for a long time. There are quite a few quirks with this medication and I wanted to cover my top 5 clindamycin clinical pearls that may show up on board exams and in clinical practice. C. Diff Risk Let’s start...
After my recent post on my top 5 medication/vitamin interactions, I received the request to cover medications that deplete vitamins and minerals. I loved this idea because it is an important consideration in clinical practice! Keep in mind that these often show up on...
