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Dose Banding for Pediatric Medications

If you go to any medication aisle of a store, you can find a wide selection of medications for pediatric patients. Everything from analgesics, cough and cold medications, and agents for gastrointestinal relief. Being a new parent myself, in learning the many ins and outs of infanthood, I did notice something that struck me as rather interesting, perhaps because of my background as an emergency medicine pharmacist, that called my attention. On most over-the-counter medications [...]

By |2019-04-04T06:00:11-05:00April 4th, 2019|EM PharmD Core|0 Comments

Two FREE High-Yield Med Reviews Packages!

Howdy y'all! As part of our continued partnership with High-Yield Med Reviews, I'm excited to share with you a huge give-away! I'm offering two FREE packages for the NAPLEX or the BCCCP exams.  Here's the catch: you have to write a post for the blog. The post could be about anything relevant to pharmacy (not just EM), and could be any length (one paragraph to a ten thousand word rant). For each package, the post with [...]

By |2019-02-25T11:14:31-05:00February 25th, 2019|Classic EM PharmD|0 Comments

DVT / PE

The coagulation cascade, at least the way I learned it in pharmacy school, needs to be burned. The next time you’re looking at an adaptation of this pathway, point out the platelet. If you can’t, don’t continue to read that source. 66 year old male being discharged from the ED with diagnosis of DVT. Will be started on oral anticoagulation, and followed in clinic. Which DOAC is preferred and should there be any bridge with [...]

By |2019-02-06T10:30:53-05:00February 6th, 2019|EM PharmD Core|0 Comments