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Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher The label of “penicillin allergic” usually sticks to a patient’s medicalrecord forever. The trouble is that many recorded allergies are actually intolerances, such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. She experienced a rash to the nafcillin as an inpatient.
Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher When a hospital microbiology laboratory performs antimicrobial susceptibility testing using microdilution or disk diffusion methods, not all of the results are presented to clinicians in the medicalrecord. Let me know in the comments below.
Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher When a hospital microbiology laboratory performs antimicrobial susceptibility testing using microdilution or disk diffusion methods, not all of the results are presented to clinicians in the medicalrecord. Let me know in the comments below.
If an ED pharmacist was not available and a code sepsis was activated, the inpatient hospital pharmacist would receive a page so they could prioritize order verification and expedite the delivery of antibiotics. After implementing the huddle process the authors compared 80 post-huddle patients with 21 pre-huddle patients.
If I’m trying to determine whether venous thromboembolism prophylaxis is appropriate, it is much faster and accurate to see the sequential compression stockings (SCDs) on the patient’s legs than it is to search the medicalrecord for documentation that SCDs were applied.
If I’m trying to determine whether venous thromboembolism prophylaxis is appropriate, it is much faster and accurate to see the sequential compression stockings (SCDs) on the patient’s legs than it is to search the medicalrecord for documentation that SCDs were applied.
Documentation within the medicalrecord. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to InpatientMedical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– This 3-step procedure includes: 1. Determination of indication 2.
If an ED pharmacist was not available and a code sepsis was activated, the inpatient hospital pharmacist would receive a page so they could prioritize order verification and expedite the delivery of antibiotics. After implementing the huddle process the authors compared 80 post-huddle patients with 21 pre-huddle patients.
If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to InpatientMedical 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.
If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to InpatientMedical 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.
In addition, the availability of first-order pharmacokinetic calculators, possibly even embedded in the electronic medicalrecord and bayesian dosing methods that can guide AUC/MIC dosing are now readily available. To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m not suggesting that you don’t document necessary pieces of information in the medicalrecord, 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.
An advantage of this scoring system is that it uses clinical values that are easily obtained from the medicalrecord and it is practical to perform. The authors of a recent study published in Pharmacotherapy sought to evaluate the usefulness of the TRS in a medical ICU.
An advantage of this scoring system is that it uses clinical values that are easily obtained from the medicalrecord and it is practical to perform. The authors of a recent study published in Pharmacotherapy sought to evaluate the usefulness of the TRS in a medical ICU.
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