by Eric Christianson | May 8, 2019 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Neurology, Pain, and Musculoskeletal Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
Parkinson’s is one of the most complex disease states you will encounter. Whenever you talk about a disease of the brain and nervous system, you know that we likely don’t have a 100% clear understanding of how it works and why it happens. However, we...
by Eric Christianson | Mar 17, 2019 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists, Respiratory Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls
Most often, breathing difficulties are due to a chronic disease process like asthma or COPD. These are obvious possible diagnoses for any patient presenting with respiratory concerns. If you are a healthcare professional, you must recognize that there are a...
by Eric Christianson | Aug 22, 2018 | Hematology and Immunology Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls, Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists
As a clinical pharmacist, we have to recognize that there are several causes of anemia. Anemia can be sometimes be caused by medications and sometimes not so much. Where is can get really complicated is when we have multiple factors that are or possibly can be...
by Eric Christianson | Mar 26, 2014 | Personal Stories From The Front Lines of Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmacist Legislative Advocacy
I feel like I’m always trying to educate folks what a clinical pharmacist can provide to patients, nurses, physicians, a healthcare team, institution etc. Since I was accepted into pharmacy school, I feel like I’ve been hearing about MTM(medication therapy...
by Eric Christianson | Oct 21, 2013 | Medication and Disease State Clinical Pearls For Pharmacists
I’m going to stay on the theme of medications that can be used for seizures. Tegretol or carbamazepine has multiple different uses(mood, seizures, certain types of pain etc) and multiple unique side effects that need to be monitored for. I will probably take a couple...
