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Clinical Center Pharmacy Department
Residency Rotation in Critical Care Medicine

This elective rotation is designed to introduce the resident to the role of the pharmacist in providing pharmaceutical care to critically ill adult and pediatric patients. The resident will gain hands-on experience in recommending, monitoring, and adjusting drug therapy regimens as well as nutritional support regimens in the medical intensive care unit. In addition, disease states commonly encountered in a medical intensive care unit will be discussed.


The resident will round with the Critical Care Medicine Department team daily at 7:30 a.m.and 4:00 p.m. The resident will be responsible for following all assigned patients. The resident and preceptor will meet on a daily basis to discuss individual patients. The resident will be responsible for discussing the indications, monitoring parameters, adverse effects, and therapeutic alternatives for each medication the patients is receiving. The resident and preceptor will discuss disease states commonly seen in a medical intensive care unit at least twice a week. The resident is required to read all reading assignments prior to the scheduled meeting.


Preceptor:
Gregory M. Susla, Pharm.D., FCCM
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist
Critical Care Medicine


 
last update: 01/01
 
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