The staff provides extensive clinical services as outlined below.
All pharmacists rotate through the distributive and clinical services.
Dosing is based on once a day dosing or traditional dosing depending on patient criteria. Vancomyacin dose and frequency are determined by pharmacist upon request. Pharmacists determine quantity of Kcals to provide, constituents of calories, electrolytes, and monitoring and adjustments of calories and electrolytes. Dosing review based on CrCl for all IV medications. Each day a computerized report is generated which lists, patient's serum Cr, height, weight, age, estimated CrCl, current IV medications, and recommended dosing of patient's medication based on CrCl.