Pharmacy Technician's Letter Hospital

December 2018 Issue

You'll hear buzz about using the "SBAR" tool for communication....

Migraine is the most common type of headache that lands patients in the emergency department (ED)....

You play an important role in returning expiring or excess inventory....

Eravacycline (Xerava, zeh-RAH-veh) will be a new antibiotic for infections in the abdomen....

Pills spilling out of a bottle

Jivi
recombinant pegylated factor VIII
New clotting factor VIII for hemophilia

Xerava
eravacycline
A tetracycline class antibiotic for complicated intra-abdominal infections

Xofluza
baloxavir
An oral antiviral for treatment of uncomplicated influenza