How would you classify her heart failure? What changes (modifications, additions, deletions) to her medications do you recommend that will: Improve her symptoms? Impact long term outcomes? What monitoring parameters do you recommend? What non-pharmacologic recommendations do you have?

A 50yo African American woman presents to clinic feeling tired for the last 3 months.  She also has trouble breathing when walking 2-3 blocks.  She…

A 79 year old white male is taking hydrocodone/APAP 10/325 for lower back pain (pt diagnosed with degenerative disc disease several months ago). The physician had written a prescription for Vicodin® 10/325  1 or 2 tablets Q4-6h prn pain with a quantity of 120.  Her expectation was that this would last the patient for one month.  The patient is now requesting refills about every 10-14 days.

Module V: Pain Management Discussion There are hundreds of opioid conversion calculators available online, though they are not all of good quality.  I would like…