Internal Medicine Pharmacotherapy

Let's start with a patient case.  A 58 year old male is sent to the hospital from his PMD for hyperkalemia.  He has a past medical his...

Last year, the FDA issued a drug safety communication , warning about the risk of nerve damage from fluoroquinolone antibiotics.  You can ...

Let's start with a patient case.  An elderly patient is admitted to the hospital with complaints of intermittent shortness of breath a...

Hepatic encephalopathy is a frequent and debilitating complication of liver disease.  The mainstay of treatment, lactulose, has been used ...

Given the rising number of options for treating venous thromboemboli (VTE), questions occasionally arise on what is the standard for initi...

Several previous discussions have dealt with the concept of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) such as extended-infusion piperacil...