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Sep 15, 2020 7 tweets 4 min read Read on X
What do I love about my job as an emergency medicine pharmacist? 🥰 I’ll give you a top 5, no particular order:

🏷 @CLKo_PharmD @GinaM8585 @SilaSmallPharmD @baIDpharm @annaIDpharmD
1. You never know what’s going to come through our doors, anything imaginable: attacked with 🌵, ingested fireworks 🧨, surprise 👶 delivery, exercise induced anaphylaxis, cardiac arrest...what can I say, I 💜 to help & easily bored, couldn’t dream up a better career for myself.
2. I work with over 100 of my best friends 🧔🏾👨🏻👩🏼‍🦰👩🏽‍🦳👱🏼‍♂️👱🏽‍♀️🧑🏽👩🏻👩🏼👨🏿‍🦱👩🏾‍🦱I’m always happy to see them when I walk through the doors. We’re there for each other as we face the challenges that come through the doors of the ED 💪💪 Love my coworkers!
3. I get to interact with everyone face to face, don’t spend much time on the phone. I get some exercise doing laps around the department 🏃‍♀️
4. I enjoy coming up with fun ways to teach the department & our residents using things like our #pharmacyeducationboard, @TILEDPharmD, the RSI game 🥳 I like to gamify things to make life more exciting... still haven’t found a way to make my unit inspection more exciting tho lol
5. I get to have awesome residents as my copilots all year- I love having them around & introducing them to EM 😆🙌🏼 Their excitement is contagious & it is so fulfilling seeing them progress. Also, they teach me things too. Win!
@clairelizfraser this is for you & all the pharmacy students out there 😉💕

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More support for our friend succinylcholine. In our ED, sugammadex (also has its own ADRs) is not readily available, no EEG monitoring & HR/BP are nonspecific & unreliable markers of adequate analgosedation— sux should be used for RSI as often as possible!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
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🚨PSA: #iPhone users! Please set up #MedicalID on your phone-we can see your medical info even with your screen locked. This is SO HELPFUL when you come in and are unable to communicate with us after a terrible accident. 🚑😵 It can help save your life! (1/7)
You can put allergies on Medical ID, emergency contacts, medical conditions, medications you take, blood type, any random medical notes, even organ donation status (and if you aren’t registered, you can register super easily through the app! 🙌🏼) (2/7)
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