Caitlin Brown

Honored to have received the EM Pharmacist of the Year from AEMP & Research Early Career Achievement Award from AGEM at @saemonline.bsky.social

🥳 AEMP wishes to congratulate our 2025 Award Winners! Bravo to all 4️⃣ of you!
🎖️ Pharmacy Resident of the Year: Leslie Banuelos
🎖️ Pharmacist of the Year: Caitlin Brown
🎖️ New Practitioner of the Year: Kyle Schuchter
🎖️ Pharmacy Advocate of the Year: Carrie Bakunas
#AEMP #AEMPlify #pharmsky

Congrats to @cbthepharmd.bsky.social on her early career @agem-saem.bsky.social award! First @saemaemp.bsky.social member to trail blaze in this space! #AEMPlify #AEMP25

Congratulations to @cbthepharmd.bsky.social !! We are super proud of her and all the work she has done in the EM world! #AEMPlify #AEMP25

Jumping into #AEMP25 - let’s talk about high stakes medication errors!

Emergency Department Visits for Medication-Related Events With vs Without Pharmacist Intervention This randomized clinical trial assesses the efficacy of a pharmacist-led transition of care program in reducing emergency department visits related to the same medication-related event at 6 months com...

Nifty RCT in @jama.com IM today evaluating the impact of targeted EM pharmacist intervention for patients presenting to the ED with medication related problems in France showing a dramatic ⬇️ in readmissions compared to SOC. Small and single center, but compelling!

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

That’s what I think @pcc-pharmd.bsky.social

I don’t have the amount of FFP readily available, but we hypothesize the same thing.

👩 815 patients
🩸PCC had significantly higher 30-day mortality (18.4 % [PCC] vs 5.7 % [FFP] vs 4.6 % [vitamin K] vs 5.6 % [no reversal], p < 0.001), which remained significant after adjusting for hemodynamic instability and ICU admission
📝 we need larger and more studies

Comparison of anticoagulation reversal strategies for warfarin associated acute gastrointestinal bleeding Gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) is a common complication associated with warfarin use. However, the optimal approach for anticoagulation reversal—whet…

⁉️Which patients require reversal in warfarin associated GIB? We lack large RCTs to guide treatment.

Check out our retrospective study evaluating treatments in GIB

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We found there is currently a gap in education pharmacists receive on caring for transgender patients & look forward to providing education and resources within our department and beyond. Thank you ACCP for providing this platform to share this important work!

Identification of education gaps for pharmacists treating transgender and gender‐diverse patients: A quality initiative at a single academic health system Background Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients experience challenges and disparities when seeking health care across a multitude of settings. Studies have demonstrated that TGD individuals...

So proud of this team and all the work they’re doing to improve the care for transgender patients! 👏🏻

accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Excited to share our work on disproportionate free VPA in the ICU, revealing that a) unexpected free VPA levels are extremely common, b) unchecked elevation is associated with ADE, and c) common factors like propofol use lead to these elevations

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

The @saemonline.bsky.social AEMP25 schedule is finalized! Register to come see all the awesome programming in Philly in May! 💊

We’re kicking off the @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social CPP 💊Year in Review in room W224EF moderated by @meganarech.bsky.social #sccm2025

Statement on Removal of Vaccine Promotion and ACIP Meeting Postponement

Infectious Disease Society of America issues a statement on the political interference with the CDC vaccine information and the advisory committee on immunisation www.idsociety.org/news--public...

@pharmacytodose.bsky.social is currently debating phenobarbital versus benzos for Alcohol Withdrawal 🍻@sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social #SCCM2025

Are you team benzos or barbs for alcohol withdrawal?!

Love this @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social

Thank you for creating a welcoming environment for everyone! 🫶

Sccm opening ceremony

At the opening ceremony for #SCCM2025

Thank you to @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social president for discussing climate change, gun violence prevention, threats to research and Medicaid

There is so much to do, and SCCM could be a powerful advocate

Kicking SCCM off with research snapshots!

@ajwpharm.bsky.social & Brian are ready to answer your questions at their booth #sccm2025

Cardiovascular Surgery and Thoracic Transplant Pharmacist at Mayo Clinic Learn more about applying for Cardiovascular Surgery and Thoracic Transplant Pharmacist at Mayo Clinic

⭐️Come join our team at Mayo Clinic!

We’re hiring for a 🫀 CV surgery/Thoracic Transplant Pharmacist jobs.mayoclinic.org/job/rocheste...

Feel free to reach out with questions! #pharmicu

Final reminder! Submit your applications for AEMP speaking opportunities!

Free registration for year in review speakers and cash prizes for best IGNITE! and Innovation! talk

💰💰 There will $100 cash prizes for the best innovation session and top 3 resident IGNITE! Pearls as voted on by the audience at AEMP!

🚨 Reminder for SAEM AEMP submissions due January 8! 🚨

AEMP Innovation Submissions: forms.gle/esFUmuoGzgQa...

AEMP IGNITE! Resident Pearls: www.saem.org/meetings-and...!

AEMP Year in Review Speaker submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🔔Do you have an Emergency Medicine Pharmacotherapy or Pharmacy Practice Innovative idea?

We’re looking for speakers 🎤 for our Innovation Session at AEMP 25.

Submissions can be submitted via the Google form by January 8: docs.google.com/forms/d/1M8D...

Submissions are open to all disciplines!

@nejm.org joined #MedSky

🎶🐍 I love seeing people’s Spotify Wrapped - so here’s mine:

For those of you attending #AES2024, be sure to check out our poster on the effect of ketogenic diet initiation on free valproate fraction in three patients with SRSE (abs 2.105)!

We found that free fraction increased by ~28% after keto started. Total VPA levels ⬇️, but free levels ⬆️!

🚑🏥 Critical Care & EM pharm group - what journals and professional organizations have transitioned to BlueSky to follow?

@ajwpharm.bsky.social @pharmacytodose.bsky.social @meganarech.bsky.social @memusselman.bsky.social

High- versus low-dose ketamine for analgesia in older adults in the emergency department Ketamine is increasingly being utilized in the management of acute pain in the emergency department (ED), including for older adults, a population at …

❓How do you dose analgesic ketamine in older adults in the ED

💫Our research found that >/= 0.3mg/kg led to a greater reduction in pain scores compared to < 0.3mg/kg

🛑 1/3 of patients in both groups needed discontinuation of ketamine

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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