Publications by authors named "Kaitlin J Armstrong"
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- Two common intravenous medications for quick blood pressure control, nicardipine and clevidipine, were evaluated for their efficacy and safety in a hospital setting.
- A study involving 100 matched patient pairs found that clevidipine led to a significantly faster time to reach the target blood pressure range compared to nicardipine (20 minutes vs. 34 minutes).
- Although the percentage of time within the target blood pressure range was similar for both medications, nicardipine showed a non-significant trend toward a higher rate of hypotension.
Importance: Protein binding of valproate varies among ICU patients, altering the biologically active free valproate concentration (VPAC). Free VPAC is measured at few laboratories and is often discordant with total VPAC. Existing equations to predict free VPAC are either not validated or are inaccurate in ICU patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo examine the placement of pathophysiology, anatomy, and physiology within the curricula of US pharmacy schools and colleges for variations in program length, prerequisites, institution type, geographic region, and establishment date. The websites of 146 pharmacy programs were examined for information related to pathophysiology, anatomy, and physiology courses and instruction. Eight programs listed uninterpretable or incomplete website data and were excluded, producing a final sample size of 138 programs.
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