The integral role of the clinical pharmacist in drug-assisted intubation at a newly established children ’s major trauma center

We describe the implementation of this process in a new hospital, which was to become the designated children ’s trauma center for an entire country. Although the literature documents the use of pharmacists in emergency intubation, ours was a unique set of circumstances, where empowering the pharmacist in frontline clinical care provided additional quality assurance for rapid sequence induction and intuba tion in trauma. Medical simulation was a core part of socializing the advanced clinical practice role of pharmacy within the trauma team. It was our experience that the pharmacist helps to promote confidence and decision making among other members of the trauma team.
Source: International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research