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Data from American Pain Society. Prinaples of Analgesic Use in the Treatment of Acute Pain and Chronic Cancer Pan, 5th ed. Glenview, IL American Pain Society, 2003 Anonymous. American Hospital Formulary Service. In Mc/oyGK, ed. Drug Information. Bethesda, MD American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999,2001,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Anonymous. Facts and Comparisons. Philadelphia Lippincott, 1986, 1991, 1994, 1997,2000,2003,2004,2006,20Q7 and Watkins PB, Kaplowitz N, Slattery TJ, et al. Aminotransferase elevations in healthy adults receiving 4 grams of acetaminophen daily A randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2006 296 87-93. 

American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, ASHP technical assistance bulletin on compounding nonsterile products in pharmacies. Am.. Hosp. Pharm., 51, 1441-1448, 1994. 

McEvoy, G.K., Ed., Drug Information 2004, American Hospital Formulary System, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, Bethesda, MD, 2004, pp. 2896-2923. 

Trissel LA Handbook on Injectable Drugs, 13th ed. American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, 2005. (With supplements.) Use of approved drugs for unlabeled indications. FDA Drug Bull 1982 12 4. 

INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL ABSTRACTS 90,000 1970-present AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HOSPITAL PHARMACISTS More than 500 pharmaceutical, medical, and related journals are indexed and abstracted... 

IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts) from American Society of Hospital Pharmacists 1969-present... 

Prior to these reports, the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists had published Mirror to Hospital Pharmacy, stating that pharmacy had lost its purpose, falling short of producing health care professionals capable of engendering change and noting that frustra-... 

American Hospital Formulary Service, Drug Information, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, 1992. 

American Society of Hospital Pharmacists. ASHP outcome competencies for institutional pharmacy technician training programs (with training guidelines). Am.. Hasp. Pharm. 1982 39 317-320. 

American society of hospital pharmacists, technical assist- 35. ance bulletin on quality assurance for pharmacy-prepared... 

Leff, R.D. Roberts, R.J. Practical Aspects of Intravenous Drug Administration American Society of Hospital Pharmacists Bethesda, MD, 1992. 

You refer Gail to the psychiatrist, who instructs her to discontinue imipramine and orders a blood level to be drawn that afternoon. The psychiatrist suspects that Gail s metabolism of imipramine may be impaired by the addition of cimetidine. The symptoms that Gail describes are consistent with tricyclic toxicity. Cimetidine is known to inhibit the ability of liver enzymes to metabolize numerous other medications, including antidepressants (American Society of Hospital Pharmacists 1993). 

Initial complaints, which usually diminish with time, include headache, lethargy, and muscle weakness. Nearly half of patients experience a fine hand tremor at some time during lithium treatment. For most people, this initial symptom remits however, for 10 percent of patients, it is a continuing side effect (American Society of Hospital Pharmacists 1993). Often the tremor becomes worse when the individual reaches for something. Sustained tremor, at therapeutic levels, can be managed with reassurance, and by limiting stimulants, such as caffeine, which may exacerbate the tremor. Sometimes this tremor is treated with beta blockers, usually propranolol (In-deral). 

Lithium s benefit in mania may be linked to effects on dopamine and norepinephrine, possibly by preventing dopamine receptor supersensitivity in the manic individual. Additionally, lithium blocks some cocaine- and amphetamine-induced symptoms of mania, which are thought to be mediated by stimulant-related increases in CNS dopamine concentration. The action of lithium on norepinephrine is variable, causing an initial prolonged increase in reuptake, although this effect is not evident with long-term administration (American Society of Hospital Pharmacists 1993). 

Lithium s serotonergic activity is postulated to be responsible for its role in preventing depressive episodes of bipolar disorder. Some bipolar patients demonstrate low CNS concentrations of serotonin. Lithium may contribute to serotonin production by increasing the uptake of the tryptophan, a serotonin precursor (American Society of Hospital Pharmacists 1993). 

Information from a variety of sources was compiled for this appendix American Society of Hospital Pharmacists 1993 Brown and Bryant 1992 Ereshefsky and Richards 1992 Facts and Comparisons 1993 Jann 1992 Jinks and Fuerst 1992 Meyer 1992 Rubin 1992 Snodgrass 1992 Vestal, Montamat, and Nielson 1992. 

Contains citations to the worldwide pharmaceutical and pharmacy literature from 1970 to the present, including drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, ethics and other topics. Covers more than 800 journal sources. Produced by the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (Data-Star, DIALOG, DIMDI, OVID, STN available on CD-ROM from Silver Platter). 

AHFS, "Drug Information 93", p. 703, G.K. McEvoy Edit., "The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists Inc., Bethesda, MD (1993). 

Leo Mossman edited the first issue, published in June 1943. The periodical was originally entitled the Official Bulletin of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists and was mimeographed on beige paper. Harvey A.K. Whitney became coeditor in September 1943, and Moss-man and Whitney continued monthly publication through December 1943. Donald E. Francke and Mossman coedited two issues, distributed in January and July of 1944,... 

Christensen, D. In Prescriptive Authority jbr Pharmacists Current Status and Future Opportunities, Presented at the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, June 5-9, 1994. 

American Society of Hospital Pharmacists. Supplemental standard and learning objectives for residency training in critical care pharmacy practice. Am. J. Hosp. Pharm. 1990, 47, 609-612. 

The ASHP Research and Education Foundation and the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP) conducted an invitational consensus conference entitled Directions for Clinical Practice in Pharmacy on February 10-13, 1985. The conference was held in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and has come to be known as the Hilton Head Conference.The conference included approximately 150 pharmacy practitioners and educators in addition, others from medicine, nursing, and hospital administration were invited as observers. 

Galt KA. Analyzing and Recording a Drug Information Request. Bethesda, MD American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, Inc., 1994. This first module in a series of three deals with the skills needed to initially take a drug information request, mostly from a general practitioner s point of view. 

American Society of Hospital Pharmacists. ASHP Statement on the Pharmacist s Responsibility for Distribution and Control of Drug Products. In Practice Standards of ASHP 1996-97 Deffenbaugh, J.H., Ed. American Society of Health System Pharmacists Bethesda, Maryland, 1996. 

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