Drug Topics September 8, 2025
Andrea Sikora, PharmD, MSCR, FCCM, FCCP, BCCCP, chair of the committee presenting new guidelines, discussed her role in bolstering pharmacists’ support in the ICU.
For patients experiencing emergency situations in the intensive care unit (ICU), critical care pharmacists are essential team members that have the ability to significantly improve patient outcomes.
“Pharmacists are one of the few things that really reduces adverse drug events and improves medication safety [in the ICU],” Andrea Sikora, PharmD, MSCR, FCCM, FCCP, BCCCP, associate professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Drug Topics. “The idea that we’re going to make sure that every patient receives the care of a critical care pharmacist, I think that is going to be...
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