GRP-083 Hospital Pharmacists Can Improve Pharmacovigilance in the Emergency Room

Hospital Emergency Room Personnel

179 SMALLPOX, ERADICATED WORLDWIDE IN THE 1970s, has reemerged as a possible bioterror threat.1 Following the events of 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax poisonings, experts’ concerns heightened over the use of smallpox as a bioterror agent because it is transmitted easily from person to person. The population is immunologically susceptible, since U.S. civilians were last vaccinated more than 3 d...

SARS in Hospital Emergency Room

Thirty-one cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred after exposure in the emergency room at the National Taiwan University Hospital. The index patient was linked to an outbreak at a nearby municipal hospital. Three clusters were identified over a 3-week period. The first cluster (5 patients) and the second cluster (14 patients) occurred among patients, family members, and nurs...

Intelligent scheduling for emergency room(ER) personnel to improve productivity

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...

Legal aspects of the hospital emergency room.

Drug shortages: what can hospital pharmacists do?

Hospital pharmacists have become accustomed to drug shortages over the past few years. For example, in 2010, 94% of Canadian pharmacists surveyed claimed that they had had difficulty locating a medication during the previous week. A 2010 survey of members of the American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists indicated that both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians were spending an average of 8–9 ...