By Jason Makii, PharmD, MBA, FCCM, FNCS, BCPS, BCCCP, Chair, Pharmacy Section Leadership Committee The pharmacy section continues to expand, and we have celebrated numerous successes this past year. Continued recruitment efforts have resulted in over 175 pharmacist members within the section,...
By Brian Gilbert, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP According to the Centers for Disease Control, it is estimated that over 1.5 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States each year. 1 Treatment modalities listed by the Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines (BTFG) include:...
The NCS Pharmacy Committee is excited to receive applications for the Invited Clinical Pharmacist (ICP) Program annually starting this November. The purpose of this program is to promote and increase the practice of neurocritical care pharmacy by sending qualified neurocritical care pharmacists...
By Stefanie Amelung, RPh, Dipl.-Pharm. 1,2 (left), and Carina Hohmann, RPh, PhD 3 (right) Affiliations: 1 Pharmacy Department, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology, Heidelberg University Hospital,...
By Caroline Der Nigoghossan, PharmD, BCCCP, and Shivani Ghoshal, MD (pictured) Intravenous crystalloid administration is one of the most common interventions performed in critically ill patients. However, during the last decade, a growing body of literature suggests potential harm with 0.9...
By Jason Kurian, PharmD and Salia Farrokh, PharmD, BCCCP For secondary stroke prevention, the 2013 American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA) joint guidelines recommend aspirin within 24 to 48 hours after stroke onset for most patients and state that the use of...
By Kelsey M. Woods, PharmD, and Katleen Wyatt Chester, PharmD, BCGP, BCCCP Approved in 1996, alteplase has long been the standard of care for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients presenting within the window for treatment. Alteplase is also utilized for pulmonary embolism (PE), myocardial...
By Eljim P. Tesoro, PharmD, BCPS, Chair, Pharmacy Leadership Committee Another successful year is in the books for the Pharmacy Committee! Our recruitment efforts have resulted in over 160 pharmacists as members (an increase from last year), with nine new international pharmacists. Over 60...
By Marcial Cariqueo Arriagada, PharmD History Pharmacy schools in Chile introduced the role of the clinical pharmacist within the curriculum in the 1970s, based on the foundation work of Lisa Strand, PharmD. Since then, different subspecialties have been introduced within clinical...