Clinical Pharmacists: Essential During a Poison Outbreak

CLINICAL REPORTS Pharmacists’ interventions

63 Am J Health-Syst Pharm—Vol 64 Jan 1, 2007 PAMELA LADA, PHARM.D., is Clinical Emergency Medicine Specialist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA. GEORGE DELGADO, JR., PHARM.D., is Coordinator, Emergency Pharmacy Services, and Clinical Emergency Medicine Specialist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health Center, Detroi...

Clinical Pharmacists in Emergency Medicine

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the need for an emergency pharmacist (EPh) program, discuss the evidence showing that an EPh program is effective, and provide information and resources that can be used by hospitals considering the implementation of an EPh program. EPh programs have existed since the 1970s, but until recently, they have been rare. Their development in the emergency dep...

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Searching for a Poison in a Poison

chlorinated biphenyl (PC8I mixtures had been described previously. High mortality, liver damage, and edema were associated with only two of the three PCB5. Using column and gas chromatography, several compounds were identified in the diethylether fracdon of these two PCBs. A chick embryo assay confirmed the high toxicity of this fraction. Mass spectremetric and microcoulometric analyses indicat...

Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.