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Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document!

Pharmacy Joe

Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document! Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher The CHEST guidelines on venous thromboembolism disease are an invaluable resource, but one flaw that has persisted since 2016 has made referencing the guidelines awkward and inconvenient. Statment 11.2

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The Febrile Infant: Incorporating the 2021 American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines

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Children 29 days or older with fever from a documented viral source can be managed according to their clinical presentation and can go outside the algorithm. This requires a documented positive viral swab and not just a presentation consistent with a viral syndrome. 2016 Aug; 138(2):e20154381. 2016 Jun 1;170(6):624].

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Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document!

Pharmacy Joe

Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document! Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher The CHEST guidelines on venous thromboembolism disease are an invaluable resource, but one flaw that has persisted since 2016 has made referencing the guidelines awkward and inconvenient. Statment 11.2

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Episode 573: Ceiling dose of ketorolac for renal colic in the ED

Pharmacy Joe

In 2016, a trial by Sergey Motov confirmed this data by demonstrating IV ketorolac has an analgesic ceiling dose of 10 mg in ED patients with moderate to severe acute pain. Both doses of ketorolac were as effective as 4 mg morphine and more effective than 2 mg morphine in providing pain control.

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Five Lessons Learned About Antimicrobial Stewardship Metrics

ID Stewardship

It may be derived from work completed inthe microbiology lab, unitsdispensed from the pharmacy, administrations performed by nurses, expenditures produced from drug purchases, documentation within any area of the electronic medical record, extraction from supplemental tools or data warehouses, and so much more.

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Episode 641: How Pharmacists Can Improve Their Working Relationships With Physicians (and Nurses)

Pharmacy Joe

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not suggesting that you don’t document necessary pieces of information in the medical record, or that you don’t document your interventions. But for basic interventions like I just described, it makes the physician look good when they “fix up” orders based on your informal recommendations.

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Enhancing Patient Care and System Revenue: The Case for Onsite Specialty Pharmacies in 340B Hospitals

Proxsys Rx

hit the rebate cap in 2016. We handle the rest of the process — painstakingly documenting everything we do, and reporting back to the health systems at every critical step. As we reported in a previous post , Humira , the top-selling drug in the U.S. , Fortunately, those steps tend to be the least burdensome in the process.