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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! This meant that any unchanged guidance statements from the 2012 9th edition were still considered to be part of the guidelines, but were not reprinted in the 2016 document. appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

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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! This meant that any unchanged guidance statements from the 2012 9th edition were still considered to be part of the guidelines, but were not reprinted in the 2016 document. appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

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Episode 918: What Happens If You Give a Cephalosporin to a Patient With Moderate, Severe, or Unknown Beta-Lactam Allergy?

Pharmacy Joe

A total of 184 patients met the criteria of presenting to the ED and being admitted for bacterial infection, having a reported beta-lactam allergy history that was moderate, severe, or unknown in nature, and who did not have a documented history of beta-lactam tolerance. He experienced a rash to the piperacillin-tazobactam as an inpatient.

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Episode 962: What Antibiotics Are Best At Toxin Inhibition?

Pharmacy Joe

Clindamycin is given a strong recommendation by the IDSA to be added to penicillin for treatment of documented group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis. 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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Episode 929: What is the incidence of torsades from low-dose ondansetron in peri-operative patients?

Pharmacy Joe

However, 100% of these episodes were precipitated by existing cardiovascular disease and 50% of these episodes had documented monomorphic VT prior to receiving ondansetron. There were 46 patients in the cohort of over 32,000 that developed monomorphic ventricular tachycardia.

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Episode 951: Getting the depth of sedation correct in the ED might reduce mortality rates by half

Pharmacy Joe

Louis just published a prospective before-after pilot and feasibility trial of an educational initiative aimed at instituting reliable ED sedation depth documentation and reducing the proportion of deeply sedated patients. The final analysis of the study population included 415 patients across 3 medical centers. post-intervention.

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Episode 877: Sedation and Analgesia Statements From the AHA/NCS Scientific Statement on Critical Care Management of Patients After Cardiac Arrest

Pharmacy Joe

The authors ackowledge the limitations of such a document including a relatively small number of people providing input and the risk of persuasive voices influencing group thinking. To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.