HughesMedicine - Pharmacotherapy Pearls from the Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacist
Sunday, September 23, 2018
"How it works" series: Midodrine
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Nitrofurantoin in renal impairment
A 74 year old female patient presents to clinic describing dysuria and urinary frequency that started within the last few days. She has no vaginal discharge or irritation and has no CVA tenderness, fevers, chills, flank pain, nausea, or vomiting. The diagnosis of uncomplicated UTI is made based on clinical suspicion and you decide to prescribe some antibiotics. She weighs 72 kg and her SCr is 1.4 mg/dL. Using the Cockcroft-Gault equation,
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