Hospital Pharmacist
Vol 15 pp1-32 No 1
January 2008

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Comment   2

Antimicrobial use — getting it right and keeping it safe 2
By Jonathan Cooke, PhD, MRPharmS
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News and research update   3-6

News summary  3-6
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-Pharmacy teams join forces after fire at Royal Marsden
-Medicines reconciliation guidance
-Norovirus causes over 100 ward closures across the UK
-SSRIs might interact with methyl blue
-PPIs are overprescribed in the NHS, say experts
-New guidance on biopharmaceuticals
-New vaccine target to fight pandemic flu
-Pregnant women need vitamin D supplements

Special feature: Healthcare-associated infection   7-18

Life-long learning

Healthcare-associated infection — Hospital-acquired infection 7-12
Healthcare-associated infections represent a massive challenge currently facing the NHS. Pharmacists must play their part in the management of infected patients and be aware of strategies that prevent one infection becoming an outbreak
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Healthcare-associated infection — Intervention-related infection 13-15
Invasive medical procedures break the body’s defence against infection and facilitate infiltration by micro-organisms. This article describes these infections and the financial burden they create for the health services
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Healthcare-associated infection — Home intravenous therapy 16-18
Home IV therapy is becoming more common in the UK. It reduces a patient’s exposure to hospital-acquired infections and has a number of other benefits. This article describes the management of these patients and the role of the homecare team
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Careers   23-24

Careers

Proactive risk reduction — by a gastroenterology pharmacist 23-24
By Joyeta Das, MRPharmS, ClinDip and Katy Morris, MRPharmS, ClinDip
Patients who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease are often prescribed high risk, immunosuppressant medicines. This article describes a pharmacy-led service to help reduce the risk associated with these drugs and improve patient safety
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Meetings   25-27

American Society of Health-system Pharmacists
Sharing recent advances in hospital pharmacy practice 25-27
Progress in gene therapy, biologics and cytotoxic risk monitoring was discussed at the recent ASHP midyear clinical meeting. Laurence Goldberg, Christine Clark and Hannah Pike report
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Focus on technicians   28

Focus on technicians

Clinical training for technicians 28
Extended roles for technicians are fundamental to developing the pharmacy profession, but require additional training. One technician shares her experience of completing a certificate in psychiatric therapeutics
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Life-long learning   29-30

Life-long learning

QUESTIONS: Healthcare-associated infection 30
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ANSWERS: Urological emergencies 29
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