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Wound Infection Signs: When to Use Antibiotics and When to See a Doctor
Wound Infection Signs: When to Use Antibiotics and When to See a Doctor By the Jase Medical Team It’s day three after you cut your forearm. Yesterday, the area around the cut was a little pink. Today, it looks angrier. Maybe it feels warmer, too. So you start...
The Most Common Infections You Can Get in an Emergency or Disaster
The Most Common Infections You Can Get in an Emergency or Disaster By the Jase Medical Team When most people picture getting an infection after a hurricane or flood, they imagine contaminated floodwater, a cut on the leg, and some unusual bacteria they've been warned...
Medication Management During a Hurricane or Flood Evacuation
Medication Management During a Hurricane or Flood Evacuation By the Jase Medical Team The storm track shifts west, and suddenly you have an hour to load the car. Clothes are easy. Chargers, important documents, water...you know where those go. Then you get to the...
Pink Eye: When You Actually Need Antibiotic Eye Drops
Pink Eye: When You Actually Need Antibiotic Eye Drops By the Jase Medical Team It’s Monday morning, and your child wakes up with one eye crusted shut. You clean it up, get everyone out the door, and hope for the best. By 9:15, the school calls. Your child has pink...
Controlled Substances in a Disaster
Controlled Substances in a Disaster: Why the Schedule on Your Prescription Changes Everything By the Jase Medical Team ou evacuated with four days of medication in your bag. Now you're two states from home, the pharmacy holding your prescription is closed, and you're...
Your Medication Is on Backorder. Now What?
Your Medication Is on Backorder. Now What? By the Jase Medical Team You’ve taken the same prescription for eleven years. You request the same refill from the same pharmacy, and this time the technician tells you: “It’s on backorder. No ETA.” You ask when it will be...
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For Clinicians | Psychiatric Medications in a Disaster
For Clinicians | Psychiatric Medications in a Disaster Why Stopping and Restarting Are Two Different Hazards By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Our last article ranked a patient’s...
For Clinicians | Which Medications Can’t Be Missed
For Clinicians | Which Medications Can't Be Missed How to Help Patients Rank their Medication List Before a Disruption By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C September is National...
For Clinicians | Purulent vs. Nonpurulent Cellulitis
For Clinicians | Purulent vs. Nonpurulent Cellulitis What an Antibiotic Can't Do for a Wound By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Most of what goes wrong with a wound isn't fixed by...
For Clinicians | What Diseases Spread After a Hurricane, Flood or Fire
For Clinicians | What Diseases Spread After a Hurricane, Flood or Fire Ranked by the Surveillance Data By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, Jase Natural disasters that displace a lot of people (hurricane, flood or wildfire) can lead to...
For Clinicians | Medication Exposed to Flood Water
For Clinicians | Medication Exposed to Flood Water The FDA Rule and Its One Exception By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Today we are covering three things: what FDA actually...
For Clinicians | 2024 First Aid Guidelines
For Clinicians | 2024 First Aid Guidelines What Changed, and What Your Patients' Kits Still Get Wrong By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Your patient bought their first aid kit off...