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Nobody Has Your Medication List, Including Your Doctor and Your Pharmacy
Nobody Has Your Medication List, Including Your Doctor and Your Pharmacy By the Jase Medical Team Most of us assume that somewhere in the healthcare system, there is one correct list of every medication we take. Your primary care doctor has a list. Your pharmacy has a...
Carbon Monoxide After the Storm
Carbon Monoxide After the Storm: The Symptoms Mistaken for the Flu By the Jase Medical Team The storm has passed, but the power is still out. It's raining, so the generator gets moved a little closer to the house—maybe under the porch or near an open garage. You're...
Why Patients Run Out of Meds
Why Patients Run Out of Meds: Ordinary Disruptions By the Jase Medical Team Most people who unexpectedly lose access to a prescription didn't lose it in a hurricane. A bottle gets left in a hotel room. A suitcase doesn't make the flight. Medication disappears during a...
The Drug Interactions You Create in an Emergency
The Drug Interactions You Create in an Emergency By the Jase Medical Team Most of the time, you don't have to think very hard about drug interactions. Your doctor has your medication list. Your pharmacy has it too. When a new prescription comes through, software...
Stings in a Disaster: The Antibiotic You Don’t Need and the Epinephrine You Do
Stings in a Disaster: The Antibiotic You Don't Need and the Epinephrine You Do Animals in a Disaster Series: Part 2 of 2By the Jase Medical Team The sting happens quickly. Maybe you're clearing branches after a storm. Maybe you're walking through a flooded yard. Maybe...
Bites and Scratches in a Disaster: Which Ones Need Antibiotics
Bites and Scratches in a Disaster: Which Ones Need Antibiotics Animals in a Disaster Series: Part 1 of 2By the Jase Medical Team Three days after the storm, the animal injuries start showing up. A cat got loose during the evacuation and bit someone's hand when they...
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For Clinicians | Medication List Accuracy
For Clinicians | Medication List Accuracy: Nobody Has the Whole Picture Anymore By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical EducationMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C We're closing out National Preparedness Month with the one step that...
For Clinicians | Why Patients Run Out of Medication
For Clinicians | Why Patients Run Out of Medication: The Ordinary Disruptions, Not the Disaster By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical EducationMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C As a pharmacist, I've helped patients keep access to...
For Clinicians | Drug Interactions in a Disaster
For Clinicians | Drug Interactions in a Disaster: The Combinations a Bad Week Creates By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical EducationMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C When we think about prescription medicine in a disaster, we most...
For Clinicians | Animal Sting Reactions
For Clinicians | Animal Sting Reactions: Large Local Reaction vs Cellulitis, and When It's Anaphylaxis By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical EducationMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C This is part two of our Animals + Disaster...
For Clinicians | Bite and Scratch Wound Antibiotic Prophylaxis Without a 48-Hour Recheck
Bite and Scratch Wound Antibiotic Prophylaxis Without a 48-Hour Recheck By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical Education Medically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C September is National Preparedness Month, and at Jase we love this month. I’d...
For Clinicians | Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Recognition
For Clinicians | Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Recognition: The Question That Beats the Symptom List By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical Education Medically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C September is National Preparedness Month, so we're...