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Alaska Pharmacy Residency Grand Rounds
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When: Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Where: UAA Professional Studies Building, 2533 Providence Drive AND will be broadcasted across the state via this link: https://isu.zoom.us/j/9077866553
Cost: FREE (Food, beverage and parking included—to get free parking, email your license plate number to Annalisa at coroanna@isu.edu )
What: The AKPhA Academy of Health-System Pharmacy has partnered with the UAA/ISU Doctor of Pharmacy program to host this event. Members and Non-Members are invited, so mark your calendars, invite a friend and plan to attend!
CPE Credit: This event has been accredited by AKPhA for up to 2.0 Hours. Credit will be awarded upon receipt of an evaluation and reported to CPE Monitor within 60 days. Remote participants are to complete the evaluation using THIS LINK. Online evaluations must be completed before Midnight on Tuesday, April 30th for CE credit. In-person attendees are to sign in on the Roster and complete a paper evaluation on site. AKPhA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of Continuing Pharmacy Education.
Target Audience: Pharmacists
UAN: 0139-0000-19-200-L01-P, Knowledge-based Activity
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Review the efficacy of a pharmacist-driven probiotic protocol to prevent Clostridium difficile in hospitalized patients receiving high dose antibiotics
- Review empiric antibiotic prescribing by emergency department physicians for outpatient urinary tract infections
- Discuss drug resistance of invasive Group A Streptococci in Alaska
- Describe the effect of adjunct midodrine on length of stay in ICU patients on vasopressors.
- Discuss how to reduce delays in antibiotic dosing for septic and septic shock patients
Presenter Topics (Slides/Handouts Linked with Titles):
- Drug resistance of invasive Group A Streptococci in Alaska from 2004–2017
Florin Iacob, PharmD, Lieutenant, United States Public Health Service, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident - Retrospective Review of Empiric Antibiotic Prescribing by Emergency Department Physicians for the Outpatient Management of Urinary Tract Infections: Pre and Post Antimicrobial Stewardship Implementation
Mariah Cadavos, PharmD, PGY1 Resident - Effect of Adjunct Midodrine on Length of Stay in Vasopressor Dependent Adult ICU Patients
Francis Balmes, PharmD, PGY1 Resident - Reducing the Delay of First and Second Dose Antibiotics for Patients Admitted for Sepsis and Septic Shock
Megan Dorsey, PharmD, PGY1 Resident - Retrospective Review of the Efficacy of a Pharmacist Driven Probiotic Protocol for the Prevention of Hospital Onset Clostridium Difficile Infections among Inpatients Receiving High-Risk Antimicrobials
Vivian Nguyen, PharmD, PGY1 Resident
