UofL Health
UofL Health
City/Town: Louisville
State/Providence: KY
Country: United States
Institution Characteristics:
- Academic Medical Center (Teaching Hospital)
- Level 1 Trauma Center
- Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Comprehensive Cardiac Center
Annual ED Visits per Year: 50-74,999
Length of Time in Years: 6-9 years
Size of Institution: 200-399 Hospital beds
Number of Pharmacists/Full Time Equivalent (FTE): 4-5
Daily ED Coverage: 18-23 hours/day
Clinical Pharmacy Services:
- Prospective Order Verification
- Antimicrobial stewardship activities including microbiological culture and susceptibility follow-up
- Medication administration
- Pharmacotherapy Consultation
- Direct bedside care during high risk medication use (rapid sequence intubation, procedural sedation)
- Emergency department resuscitation team (cardiopulmonary arrest, trauma, and burn resuscitation, myocardial infarction, stroke, sepsis)
- Patient counseling and education
- Pharmacy Resident Precepting
- Post-Graduate Year 2 Emergency Medicine Program
- Interdisciplinary EM research
- Guideline/protocol/process development
- Medication therapy updates and education on optimal medication therapy for ED team members (often takes place at the bedside or in the ED)
- Vaccine administration