Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 26, 2023

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– In this episode, I’ll discuss an article about IVP antibiotic safety.

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RX Note

AUGUST 4, 2023

You should be at least familiar with insulin and inhalers counselling before entering ward, inpatient or outpatient. In overall, there is a maximum of 9 training modules that you have to complete in 1 year time (which will cover all hospital pharmacy departments). What to do if I did not know the answer to questions from patients or doctors?

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The Luxe Pharmacist

APRIL 27, 2022

I always hoped I would land an inpatient pharmacy intern job but it never happened, at the time I was very frustrated and down that others in my class had one and I didn’t but in the end that was okay and everything happened for a reason. I covered various inpatient floors form internal medicine to the medical ICU.

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Pharmacy Joe

MAY 7, 2023

A recent abstract presented at the CHEST Congress and published in the Journal CHEST June 2020 highlighted this clinical dilemma. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 52

Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

MAY 7, 2023

A recent abstract presented at the CHEST Congress and published in the Journal CHEST June 2020 highlighted this clinical dilemma. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 52

Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Another 2020 study showed phenobarbital receptor inhibition in only 1 out of 7 excitatory amino acid receptors studied, and this was at a concentration over 4 times the upper level of what is considered therapeutic for phenobarbital. To get instant access go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

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Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However a 2020 study cast some doubt on whether levothyroxine has the desired effect, giving support to the design of a randomized trial to examine this issue that was recently published in New England Journal of Medicine. To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

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Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However a 2020 study cast some doubt on whether levothyroxine has the desired effect, giving support to the design of a randomized trial to examine this issue that was recently published in New England Journal of Medicine. To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

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Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 1, 2020

A recent abstract presented at the CHEST Congress and published in the Journal CHEST June 2020 highlighted this clinical dilemma. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

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Inpatient 40

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 22, 2020

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher New vancomycin guidelines were published in March 2020. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– Episode 524: What is Bayesian dosing?

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Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 26, 2023

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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Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In an effort to bring clarity to this subject, a Randomized Trial Comparing Antibiotics with Appendectomy for Appendicitis was published in October 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine. To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

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Pharmacy Joe

MAY 23, 2021

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher In order to use AUC to monitor vancomycin, the 2020 Vancomycin guidelines recommend using either 2 vancomycin levels with first-order kinetic calculations or Bayesian software programs to estimate AUC. Episode 611: How well does Bayesian Vancomycin Monitoring Work in the Critically Ill?

Inpatient 40

Inpatient 40

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

#SGEMHOP [link] — Steve Trumble (@SteveTrumble) September 28, 2020 Are you using GI cocktail for treating patients presenting with epigastric pain? If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

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Inpatient 40

Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Episode 775: A web-based program to estimate vancomycin AUC from a single trough value Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher Vancomycin guidelines published in March of 2020 have recommended AUC based monitoring over trough-based monitoring due to a reduction in AKI events when AUC based monitoring is used.

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Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 26, 2023

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– Many institutions chose to conserve IV minibags by converting as many antibiotics as possible to IV push administration.

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Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 11, 2021

What “stinks” is that the IDSA recommendations were known to be supporting fidaxomicin first as early as October 2020: Wow. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

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Inpatient 40

Pharmacy Joe

JANUARY 10, 2021

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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ID Stewardship

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Understanding inpatient antimicrobial stewardship metric. Metrics of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs. Expert Consensus on Metrics to Assess the Impact of Patient-Level Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Acute-Care Settings.

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Pharmacy Joe

JULY 18, 2021

There was no edition published in 2020, so I was excited to see one that came out in 2021. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

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Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 21, 2020

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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RX Note

MAY 31, 2023

External Links UpToDate - General Principles of Insulin Therapy in Diabetes Mellitus UpToDate - Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, 2020 Practical Guide to Inpatient Glycemic Care, 2020 Practical Guide To Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes, 2011

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Diabetes Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The patiromer study was published in Academic Emergency Medicine January 2020. The sodium zirconium cyclosilicate study was published in Academic Emergency Medicine June 2020. There are two small studies that look at gastrointestinal cation exchangers other than sodium polystyrene sulfate in acute hyperkalemia.

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Pharmacy Joe

MAY 10, 2020

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– Many institutions chose to conserve IV minibags by converting as many antibiotics as possible to IV push administration.

Inpatient 40

Inpatient 40

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 12, 2020

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher A case report of apparent drug-induced liver injury from remdesivir and PGP inhibitors was published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases in June 2020. A 64-year old male with a 7-day history of symptoms was admitted and tested positive for COVID-19.

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Inpatient Hospitals 40

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 19, 2020

New vancomycin guidelines were published in March 2020. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

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Medical Records Inpatient 40

Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Episode 775: A web-based program to estimate vancomycin AUC from a single trough value Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher Vancomycin guidelines published in March of 2020 have recommended AUC based monitoring over trough-based monitoring due to a reduction in AKI events when AUC based monitoring is used.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A systematic review of the available evidence published in 2020 identified only 1 placebo controlled trial that evaluated haloperidol for ICU delirium and the authors of this review judged the evidence to be “sparse, of low quality and inconclusive.”

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Pharmacy Joe

MAY 24, 2020

MikeMullinsMD [link] — Dave Liss (@dave_liss) May 22, 2020 Many pharmacists are likely to become journal reviewers as a result of ASHP residency preceptor requirements, and we are in a position to correctly apply scoring systems such as the Naranjo scale. The authors intentionally excluded its use in overdose.

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Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 14, 2020

Boulware Published in: New England Journal of Medicine June 2020 Background With in vitro data suggesting that hydroxychloroquine has activity against Covid-19, there is as much interest in using it as preventative therapy as there is for treatment.

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Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This change was made in 2020 because the guideline authors opinion is that the trade-off of monitoring simplicity vs toxicity that trough values represent is no longer justifiable given the knowledge and technology available to clinicians today.

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Pharmacy Joe

AUGUST 14, 2022

The authors of a study published February 2020 in the journal Critical Care sought to compare the efficacy and safety of buprenorphine and naloxone in reversing respiratory depression in methadone-poisoned opioid-dependent patients.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A systematic review of the available evidence published in 2020 identified only 1 placebo controlled trial that evaluated haloperidol for ICU delirium and the authors of this review judged the evidence to be “sparse, of low quality and inconclusive.”

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Pharmacy Joe

MAY 17, 2020

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In phase three, which began in late 2020, the following enhancements were made: 1. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

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