Joanne Kaldy
Joanne Kaldy
Personalized medicine--tailoring medical treatment not only to patients' individual characteristics, but also to their genetic profiles--is a new trend that is gaining attention in health care. It has the potential to manage diseases with a...
Guido R Zanni,Jeannette Y Wick
Guido R Zanni
ASCP policy statement use of antipsychotic medications in nursing facility residents [0.03%]
关于在护理机构居民中使用抗精神病药物的声明政策
In May 2011, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services issued a report on the use of atypical antipsychotic medications in elderly nursing facility residents. The report found that 95% of the use o...
Comment on the potential utility of the new atypical antipsychotic lurasidone in the geriatric population [0.03%]
关于新型非典型抗精神病药物鲁拉西酮在老年群体中潜在作用的评述
David R P Guay
David R P Guay
Lurasidone is the tenth atypical antipsychotic to be marketed in the United States. Like other atypical agents, lurasidone binds to a variety of central nervous system receptors, including dopamine (D2), norepinephrine (alpha 2A and 2C), an...
Sheetal Dharia,Kailen Verilla,Ericka L Breden
Sheetal Dharia
A Caucasian female octogenarian with multiple medical problems was admitted to the inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit with intermittent altered mental status and decline in memory. She had been hospitalized four times in the previous three...
Aubri L Charboneau,Penny S Shelton,Jan B Brickley et al.
Aubri L Charboneau et al.
Objective: To determine the percentage of medication-related proposed penalties for licensed assisted living facilities in North Carolina. Design: ...
Jeannette Y Wick
Jeannette Y Wick
Most pharmaceuticals have a number of names throughout their lives. Chemical names are often supplanted with trivial (common) names. Then, drug innovators apply to the United States Adopted Names (USAN) Council for a generic name, and if th...
Caren McHenry Martin
Caren McHenry Martin
Opioid medications are commonly used to treat moderate-to-severe pain. While these medications are generally an effective means of pain control, they can, in rare cases, actually exacerbate the pain. This paradoxical reaction is called opio...
Rebecca L Dunn,Winter J Smith,Mark A Stratton
Rebecca L Dunn
An 86-year-old Caucasian male developed hyponatremia while on trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) 80/400 mg, one tablet by mouth twice daily. Upon discontinuation of therapy, his serum sodium and symptoms improved. He was inadvertently ...