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Summer 2008," health care professionals need to be alert to a dangerous drug-device interaction of icodextrin (Extraneal®) and point-of-care glucose monitoring. The report says the following:
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The past decade has featured devastating hurricanes, floods, fires, and terrorist acts that have captured headlines often for weeks at a time.
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Pharmacists residing in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas are well aware of the disaster drill.
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One of the key strategies for preparing for a disaster or crisis is to encourage pharmacists and other health care professionals to take care of their own families and homes and themselves first, and then they can prepare for the public's needs.
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A new class of drugs, called peripheral-acting mu opioid receptor antagonists, offers cancer patients and other advanced illness patients relief from some of the debilitating side effects of opioid use.1
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"We were interested in understanding the safety of respiratory medications in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)," says Todd A. Lee, PharmD, PhD, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University in Chicago, OH. Lee also is a senior investigator at Hines Veteran Affairs Hospital in Hines, IL.
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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia, a subsidiary of WellPoint Inc., based in Richmond, has received a 2008 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for its development and implementation of performance-based reimbursement programs for Virginia hospitals, cardiologists, and cardiac surgeons.
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While The Joint Commission is asking health care facilities to use computerized physician order entry and bar coding technology as an adjunct to arm themselves in managing high-risk medications including anticoagulants, a recent study highlights the errors implicit in this kind of information technology support.
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In September, the American Hospital Association issued a quality advisory on implementing standardized colors for patient alert wristbands, citing a near miss when a nurse mistakenly placed a wrong-colored bracelet on a patient, confusing the color codes of the two hospitals for which she worked.
