AeroLEF (fentanyl) / Gilead - LARVOL DELTA

Prescribe smarter with advanced practice nurse pharmacology courses - "The rationale for requiring nurses to update their knowledge of medicines and be aware of trends in new drugs and biological agents is important, said one of our advanced practice nurse pharmacology course authors, Paul Arnstein, RN, PhD, FAAN...Ketamine, for example, was used for a long time as an anesthetic. When using it in opioid-tolerant patients, it was found to be an effective analgesic at lower the dose of opioid needed to be effective....When monitoring response to therapy, it’s important for nurses at all levels to be familiar with black box warnings and drug interactions. We do a tremendous disservice to patients if we fail to know those critical pieces of information that change over time."

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Fentanyl can lead to overdoses in hospitals, too - "'Unfortunately when cases like this one in Columbus come up it has a chilling effect,' says Michael Schatman...'To me this whole notion of regulators deciding, whether they be on an external level or within the hospital, deciding how much they can prescribe, is absurd.'"

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