Help Your Pharmacy Conserve Heparin

November 2019

Hospitals will ramp up efforts to deal with the heparin shortage.

It's partly related to a limited supply of raw materials.

Heparin comes from pork...sometimes from China, where the pig population has dwindled due to a swine flu outbreak.

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Table of Contents

Practice Up Your Game When Training New Technicians
Shortages Help Your Pharmacy Conserve Heparin
Pediatrics Don't Think of Pediatric Patients as Little Adults
Antibiotics Avoid Mishaps With Antibiotics That Treat "Anaerobes"
Hypoglycemia Expect to See New Glucagon Products on Home Med Lists
Heart Failure Keep Heart Failure Patients Safe as Their Med Regimens Change
Med Safety Navigate Safety Concerns With Ranitidine and Other Meds
Diabetes Think of Rybelsus as the Tablet Version of Injectable Ozempic
Breast Cancer Reduce Errors With Breast Cancer Prevention Meds
HIV AIDS Don't Be Surprised to See Descovy Used to Prevent HIV