Author Archives: PharMerD

Student Guest Post: Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia

Fourth year pharmacy students Shanna & Sierra are sharing with you their handout and few words below about the topic: Anticoagulating patients can seem like an already daunting task. Taking indication, renal function, hepatic function, and bleed risk into account, selecting an appropriate agent can be challenging. What happens when you run into trouble? Heparin

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Diuretics…getting to the very last drop

Management of diuretics can seem a lot like a guessing game, and sometimes it is when trying to actively diurese and land on the most effective dose for a patient. Most of the time when we talk about diuretics, they fall into one of two categories: those used for blood pressure (i.e. thiazides) and those

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