Internal Medicine Pharmacotherapy

On December 3, 2014, the FDA issued a new rule revising the current regulations pertaining to the pregnancy, labor and delivery, and nursi...

Heparin and low molecular weight heparins (LMWH) are some of the many medications that have been identified to cause hyperkalemia.  When l...

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 ...