The Role of the Pharmacistin Procedural Sedation and Analgesiain the Emergency Department

摘要

In the hospital setting, the role of the clinical pharmacist continues to evolve. The provision of clinical pharmacy services for both inpatients and outpatients has been shown to reduce adverse drug events, patient mortality, length of hospital stay, and health care costs. Over the past 3 decades, various reports of clinical pharmacy services specific to the emergency department have described a variety of pharmacist responsibilities, including identifying drug-related problems, providing patient education, obtaining patient medication histories, providing pharmacokinetic monitoring and toxicology information services, and participating on cardiopulmonary resuscitation teams. At present, it is estimated that about half of Canadian hospitals offer outpatient clinical pharmacy services in the emergency department.