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Episode 979: Does aspiration pneumonia require different antibiotics than community acquired pneumonia?

Pharmacy Joe

While aspiration was not previously addressed head-on in CAP guidelines, new data prompted the 2019 IDSA CAP guideline authors to include the following question: Question 10: In the Inpatient Setting, Should Patients with Suspected Aspiration Pneumonia Receive Additional Anaerobic Coverage beyond Standard Empiric Treatment for CAP?

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Episode 1042: Early Norepinephrine Use in Septic Shock is Associated with Reduced Mortality

Pharmacy Joe

One study had early administration begin in the pre-hospital phase of care, the largest study considered early to be within 3 hours, and the others ranged from considering early to be within 25 to 360 minutes. The article in this episode is a selection from my Hospital Pharmacy Academy’s weekly literature digest.

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Atrium Health: Pioneering Outpatient Transplant Models Driven by Pharmacist-Led Care

Pharmacy Times

So if patients are doing research about transplants, what they read and hear on the internet is that it’s all inpatient. Is it the inpatient pharmacy? We do it in our inpatient unit, and that allows those same nurses that take care of transplant patients every other day to take care of them in the outpatient setting.

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Reinventing Transplant Care: From Inpatient Tradition to Outpatient Innovation

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacy Times : How does the team ensure smooth transitions from inpatient to outpatient transplant care, particularly regarding medication management? In most hospitals, you have what's called “meds to beds,” where the outpatient pharmacy will fill the discharge prescriptions and bring them to the floor.

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Episode 969: How a pharmacist can ensure the best possible outcomes for status epilepticus

Pharmacy Joe

Episode 969: How a pharmacist can ensure the best possible outcomes for status epilepticus Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher Whenever I encounter a hospital inpatient with an acute seizure, I make sure that I have IV lorazepam available. Most seizures stop after about 2 minutes.

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Psychiatric Medication Adherence in Patients Experiencing Homelessness

Pharmacy Times

In a recent initiative, we attempted to analyze medication adherence rates at Sharp Mesa Vista (SMV) Hospital, the largest psychiatric hospital in San Diego, to identify possible reasons leading to nonadherence in patients admitted to the hospital, both those experiencing homelessness and those who were not admitted to the hospital.

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‘No more rabbits to pull’: The core assumptions hospital CEOs are rethinking

Beckers Hospital Review

Healthcare CEOs facing new financial realities are rethinking core assumptions about hospital economics to support their respective organizations’ path forward. Becker’s asked leaders to share an assumption about hospital economics that they’ve personally rethought — and how that has changed their approach.