Publications by authors named "B S Schweigert"
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- Hospital antibiotic stewardship programs help control how antibiotics are prescribed, which can reduce infections caused by bacteria that don't respond to medicines.
- In a study, they focused on reducing the use of a specific medicine called daptomycin for certain infections and started testing the tissue around joint replacements to better diagnose infections.
- After the program started, the overall use of antibiotics went down a lot, and they saw a big drop in daptomycin use while also increasing the use of a different antibiotic called flucloxacillin.
To assess the effect of state legislation expanding the scope of pharmacy practice in health-care institutions, California hospitals were surveyed in 1982 and 1986 about pharmacists' regulation of drug therapy. Questionnaires were mailed to pharmacy directors at all hospitals in the state. The survey form explained that in pharmacist-regulated drug therapy, the pharmacist, under order or authorization of the prescriber, requests laboratory tests and initiates or adjusts drug dosage to obtain the desired therapeutic response; the questions were based on this definition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOuabain- or dihydroouabain(DHO)-sensitive membrane currents and binding of 3H-ouabain were investigated under voltage-clamp conditions in full-grown prophase-arrested oocytes of Xenopus laevis. (1) The ouabain-sensitive current is outwardly directed and usually exhibits a maximum at about +20 mV. The occurrence of the maximum is not affected by application of blockers for passive K+ currents.
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