Review Articles
The Specialty Pharmacist’s Role in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Specialty pharmacies have an important role in managing patients prescribed specialty medications for RA, including educating patients, performing pre-treatment safety screening, monitoring treatment for safety and therapeutic response, and coordinating care for patients as they experience transitions in sites of care, insurance coverage or therapy plans.
JANUARY 1, 2025
Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptom Control: Insights and Interventions for Pharmacy Practice
This article discusses the common symptoms of RA and their impact on patients; nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies for symptom management are also discussed, as well as pharmacist strategies on how to support symptom management in patients with RA.
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Acute Postsurgical Pain Management Using Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
The emergence of peripheral nerve stimulation has provided a potential new analgesic therapy for patients in acute postoperative recovery.
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
A Review of Newly Available Humira Biosimilars for Pharmacists
Adalimumab (Humira, AbbVie) has become one of the world’s best-selling drugs for treating various inflammatory conditions spanning dermatology, gastroenterology, and rheumatology since its December 2002 US approval.
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Environmental Monitoring for Sterile Hazardous Drug Compounding
Compounding safe sterile preparations requires harmonization of people, processes and engineering controls.
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Multimodal Analgesia For Complex Spine Surgeries
Multimodal analgesia is the ideal method for perioperative pain management for spine surgeries, especially the complex ones.
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Breaking Down the ASRA Pain Medicine Perioperative Cannabis And Cannabinoid Guidelines
Cannabis use is widespread in the United States and has important implications for us as anesthesiologists, whether we like it or not.
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Safety of Anesthetic and Perioperative Medication Practices
The perioperative setting is potentially a much higher area of risk than other areas of the hospital.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Epidemiology and Management of Burnout Among Anesthesiologists
A recent study into burnout among U.S. physicians discovered significant rates of high emotional exhaustion, high depersonalization and low sense of personal accomplishment.
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Erector Spinae Plane Block: Has the Growth Outpaced the Evidence?
Few regional anesthesia procedures have exploded onto the scene with as much enthusiasm as the erector spinae plane block.
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
Let's Start With My Name: Improving Communication in the OR
While there is generally good communication between surgeons and their residents and between surgeons and nurses, communication between anesthetic care providers and surgeons can be lacking.
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Intensive Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Roundtable
Is there any aspect of health care that didn’t change or evolve as a consequence of COVID–19?
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
