Hospital pharmacy
Jun 11, 2021
Administration of medication via enteral feeding tubes (EFT) is common in cases where patients are unable to swallow the dosage form or a patient is intubated. The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019) epidemic created a need to rapidly eva...
Hospital pharmacy
May 19, 2021
Fluid stewardship targets optimal fluid management to improve patient outcomes. Intravenous (IV) medications, flushes, and blood products, collectively referred to as hidden fluids, contribute to fluid intake in the intensive care unit (ICU). The im...
Hospital pharmacy
Nov 25, 2020
PURPOSE: Compounded eye drop solutions of vancomycin hydrochloride have important clinical applications, such as postoperative antimicrobial prophylaxis and bacterial keratitis. There exists a plethora of data to support the use of various liquid veh...
Hospital pharmacy
Nov 25, 2020
Prefilled drug syringe use may reduce the cost of routine antibiotic drug delivery. Storage of prefilled syringes frozen (-20°C) or refrigerated (4°C-5°C), can optimize the use of robotic syringe filling systems if acceptable stability data is gathe...
Hospital pharmacy
Jun 8, 2020
To assess chemical degradation of various liquid chemotherapy and opioid drugs in the novel RxDestruct™ instrument. Intravenous (IV) drug solutions for chemotherapy and pain management were prepared using 0.9% normal saline in Excel bags to a final...
Hospital pharmacy
Jun 2, 2020
Diazepam is one of the most widely prescribed tranquilizers for the therapy of alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS), which includes the symptoms of anxiety, fear, and emotional tension. However, diazepam therapy often turns out to be ineffective, and s...
Hospital pharmacy
May 31, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Use of ampicillin in outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) has historically been complicated by frequent dosing and limited stability. The purpose of this study was to evaluate stability of ampicillin using high-pressure liqui...
Hospital pharmacy
May 17, 2020
Accurate assessment of renal function is essential in hospitalized elderly patients. Few studies have examined the accuracy of Cockcroft-Gault (C-G) estimates of creatinine clearance (CrCl) compared with measured clearance in these patients. The ob...
Hospital pharmacy
May 17, 2020
The intent of this article is to evaluate a novel approach, using rapid cycle analytics and real world evidence, to optimize and improve the medication evaluation process to help the formulary decision making process, while reducing time for clinici...
Hospital pharmacy
Jan 23, 2020
To evaluate the chemical and physical stability of an admixture containing cefepime and vancomycin in a single volume of lactated Ringer solution at refrigerated temperatures. Cefepime 2000 mg and vancomycin 1000 mg were, respectively, reconstitute...