In the spirit of "What's Next for Pharmacy," the Perioperative PRN Educational Programming Committee presents a focus session showcasing an expanded vision for clinical pharmacist services and medication safety optimization in procedural areas. Procedural spaces such as the cardiac catheterization lab, endoscopy suite, interventional radiology suite, interventional pulmonology suite, and interventional neurology suite are anticipated to be of focus. These areas have similar workflows, medication education and management needs, and safety risk points as the perioperative setting, but have unique barriers to pharmacist integration and medication optimization. Opportunities exist to increase involvement of not only perioperative clinical pharmacists in these unique spaces, but also of other specialty pharmacists that provide care for patients who commonly undergo procedures. The target audience of this session therefore is broad, targeting the Perioperative PRN along with practitioners from a variety of other PRNs, including, but not limited to Cardiology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Pulmonary, Neurology, GI/Liver/Nutrition, and Endocrine/Metabolism. The purpose of this session is to share knowledge about common and emerging procedural medication practices, to highlight current safety challenges, and to showcase the clinical opportunities that exist within the procedural setting.

Faculty

Moderator: Rachel C. Wolfe, Pharm.D., BCCCP Clinical Pharmacy Specialist of Perioperative Services Barnes-Jewish Hospital Saint Louis, Missouri   View Biography