Patient case study

Editor-in-Chief, Dr Catherine McKenzie and Critical Illness Contributor, Annie Egan, have used the example of patient JD to breakdown the complexity of therapeutic decisions that need to be considered, often on a daily basis, to provide clinical care for a critically ill patient. This includes:

• Assessment of patient, drug, environment.
• Evaluation of available evidence base.
• Continuous evaluation of multiple factors throughout the patient’s ICU stay

All prescribing choices and decisions, including antimicrobial choice (meropenem), and thromboprophylaxis (enoxaparin), are explained in detail throughout the case. The FAST HUGS process is included as a method to give order to JD’s pharmacotherapy review.

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