by Eric Christianson | Dec 13, 2020 | Educational Case Studies For Pharmacists, Polypharmacy Cases And The Prescribing Cascade
A 53-year-old male presents to the emergency department with severe agitation, fever, and symptoms of delirium. The attending provider assesses the patient and gets a urine drug screen. The drug screen was positive for cocaine. In addition to the psychiatric symptoms,...
by Eric Christianson | Aug 5, 2020 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists
While not incredibly common, medications can cause dysregulation of our body’s thermoregulation process and cause a rise in core temperature in the presence of normal core body temperature which leads to hyperthermia. Before we get to the drugs that cause...
