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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. 2020 Dec 17:hpeds.2020-0187. Epub 2020 Oct 31.

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Episode 812: Can You IV Push Piperacillin/Tazobactam?

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push piperacillin/tazobactam within an emergency department Lead author: William Blake Hays Published in American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy May 2020 Background Piperacillin/tazobactam is typically administered via IV piggyback over 30 minutes or more increasingly common via extended infusion over 4 hours.

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Rare diseases have tenfold higher impact on healthcare costs; study

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The burden was chiefly driven by direct costs like medicinal products, inpatient and outpatient hospital visits and home healthcare, as well as mortality costs, calculated at $130,000 per year lost. The highest burden was posed by metabolic diseases and neurological disorders, which were both upwards of $300,000 PPPY.

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Episode 812: Can You IV Push Piperacillin/Tazobactam?

Pharmacy Joe

push piperacillin/tazobactam within an emergency department Lead author: William Blake Hays Published in American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy May 2020 Background Piperacillin/tazobactam is typically administered via IV piggyback over 30 minutes or more increasingly common via extended infusion over 4 hours.

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

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Most recently, in December 2020 in Academic Emergency Medicine researchers published a non-inferiority randomized trial comparing the analgesic efficacy of 3 doses of intravenous ketorolac (10, 20, and 30mg) in adult patients presenting to the ED with renal colic. 165 patients were split evenly between the 3 groups.

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Five Lessons Learned About Antimicrobial Stewardship Metrics

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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 515: IV Push Piperacillin/Tazobactam

Pharmacy Joe

push piperacillin/tazobactam within an emergency department Lead author: William Blake Hays Published in American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy May 2020 Background Piperacillin/tazobactam is typically administered via IV piggyback over 30 minutes or more increasingly common via extended infusion over 4 hours.