Kate Lowrey, PharmD, BCEMP
@KLowRx
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Overnight EM Pharmacist ll Emergency Med PGY2 @IU_Health || PGY1 @ChristianaCare || views & dog photos are my own
Northern Colorado 🏔️
Joined February 2011
Today instead of “pharmacy” I was referred to as “physician autocorrect” 😂
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Coming to you live from the ED to tell you emergency medicine is really fucking hard.
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Single dose Aminoglycoside implemented in the ED can help avoid hospital admissions. Awesome pilot series led by @JJenretteRx
https://t.co/31DGVLOhWn
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Background Antimicrobial resistance among Enterobacterales continues to be a growing problem, particularly in those with urinary infections. Previous studies have demonstrated safety and efficacy...
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📆🚨🚑We are just under a week away from our Town Hall! Please register if you haven’t already! Also we are soliciting questions for our session as well - submit here: https://t.co/HzhwW9qgaI
@SAEMonline
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Want to learn more about AEMP? Have questions for AEMP leadership? Save the date and register for our upcoming Town Hall on Feb 13 @ 1CST. Register here: https://t.co/XzM9TwbcJb
@SAEMonline @MeganARech @EmergPharm @LRayRx
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On #NationalPharmacistDay, SAEM proudly highlights our Academic EM Pharmacists Interest Group (AEMP)! This unique opportunity will help advance the practice of EM pharmacy and forge strong bonds between EM pharmacists and SAEM's network of EM physicians! https://t.co/WUVVcXcVAh
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Hi, medical toxicologist here. Administering large doses of naloxone to all patients with opioid toxicity to "totally reverse" them is not a good take. My thoughts below:
When it comes to naloxone opioid reversal, there are 2 schools of thought - give them just enough to increase their RR or totally reverse and wake them up. I'm in the latter. I rarely start with <4mg. There's a theoretical risk that their opioid could outlast the naloxone,
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Any articles on how preceptors can reflect/track/incorporate learner feedback? I'm finding zero and am starting to think it's not talked about enough. We're doing learners a disservice by not adapting and improving. Any articles on this out there? #twitterx #academia #residency
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🔍The search is on for the #EMPRx24 Pharmacy Awards. Who's setting the standard in your ER? ✨ Nominate an EM PharmD who’s gone above and beyond. Know a non-pharmacist who’s a pharmacotherapy pro? We want to hear about them too! Details ➡️ https://t.co/zxwO26JyLb
#twitteRx
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Stewardship initiatives that would work, would not cause harm, but no one would let me do: 1. All providers get a daily vanco ration. If you run out, you have to borrow from other provider, they have to agree w/ you and give you one of theirs 2. Board w/ # quinolone Rx by name
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EM Pharmacists dramatically reducing the time to attempted patient contact for EM pt's dc'd later to have positive blood culture results. A great way for us to help out in a busy department and ensure the best care is provided https://t.co/3fIJNTanfa
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In patients discharged from the ED with subsequent positive blood cultures, time to attempted patient contact was significantly shorter when a pharmacist was on-duty. Our data emphasizes the import...
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@UnivHealthSA is looking for an EM pharmacist to join our team!! 7 on/off - overnight Level 1 trauma center (adult and pediatric) Comprehensive stroke center Chest Pain Center Residency program @UHPharmRes And much more! DM me if interested.
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Shorts and hoodie weather this week. If you see a Midwesterner smiling and enjoying themselves, leave them be. This is a spiritual time for us.
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🚑🚨VERY exciting news for EM PharmDs: We are forming the Academic EM Pharmacist Interest Group within SAEM See the link for how to join, leadership, networking, resident opportunities, & more! We need your help to make it a success! 🙌 #TwitteRx
https://t.co/w6YfjZATsG
saem.org
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Going into the holiday, a few reminders: Colloquially it’s called Independence Day. To ER doctors it’s ‘omg don’t drive drunk you’ll all just hit each other, seriously don’t hold fireworks with your hands, and that potato salad been sitting out for 9 hours now, don’t do it’ day
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Officially PGY-DONE. So grateful for the opportunity to have worked with and learned from @IUSMEmergMed. I couldn’t have imagined a better year. I’m excited to be starting my career as an Emergency Medicine Pharmacist at @uchealth!
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Realizing I just finished my last staffing shift of residency
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SAY IT WITH ME: ✨Kidney function doesn’t matter for vancomycin loading doses. Kidney function doesn’t matter for vancomycin loading doses. Kidney function doesn’t matter for vancomycin loading doses. ✨ Gotta fill the tank regardless of how fast (or slow) the tank empties!
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This one tweet united pharmacy more than all ASHP/APhA conferences put together ever have😂😂😂
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