Pharmacist's Letter Hospital

November 2019 Issue

You'll need to stay on high alert when caring for children if your hospital primarily treats adults....

You'll see new focus on fine-tuning diuresis and discharge meds in acute heart failure....

The thinking is changing about using perioperative "stress-dose steroids" in adults taking chronic corticosteroids....

You'll get questions about strategies to manage primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in adults....

Surgery

Baqsimi
glucagon
A new nasal powder formulation for severe hypoglycemia

Gvoke
glucagon
New subcutaneous injection formulation available in a pre-filled syringe

Rybelsus
Semaglutide
Oral GLP-1 agonist for type 2 diabetes. It's the tablet version of injectable Ozempic.