TELECONFERENCE

Improving Medication Safety with Antithrombotic Agents

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW This session will discuss medication safety with antithrombotic agents in the outpatient and inpatient settings from the perspective of the community hospital and the tertiary care teaching hospital. Practices that can improve medication safety will be discussed, including the practitioner's role in preventing adverse events through monitoring and managing care with different classes of antithrombotic agents. The use of inpatient and outpatient antithrombotic teams or services, antithrombotic protocols and preprinted order sets will be discussed.

INTENDED AUDIENCE (Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged to attend together):

• Prescribers: Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, & Physician's Assistants
• CMO's
• Risk Managers
• Medication and Safety Officers
• Pharmacy Directors
• Hospital Pharmacists
• Nurse Managers
• Staff Nurses

OBJECTIVES

Following completion of this teleconference, participants should be able to:

• Evaluate the prescribing, dispensing and administration of antithrombotic agents
• Describe the most common preventable adverse events with antithrombotic therapy
• Identify those practices that can improve medication safety through prevention of adverse events with these agents
• Discuss the role of the practitioner in monitoring and managing care in the inpatient and outpatient setting

MODERATOR

• Matthew P. Fricker, Jr MS RPh, Program Director, Institute for Safe Medication Practices

SPEAKERS

• Thomas S. Sisca, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, Clinical Pharmacist, Antithrombosis Specialist,Shore Health System Antithrombosis Services/Anticoagulation Clinic, Memorial Hospital at Easton, MD.
• Lynda Thomson, PharmD, CACP, Inpatient Antithrombotic Program Coordinator, Jefferson Antithrombotic Therapy Service, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA

PRICING INFORMATION

Live Teleconference	$195.00
Live Teleconference and Teleconference CD	$225.00 (Plus $5.00 S&H)
Teleconference CD	$195.00 (Plus $5.00 S&H)
*CD includes a file of the audio recording of the teleconference as well as PowerPoint files containing slides of each presentation.

TELECONFERENCE POLICIES

Registration

• One telephone line connection is allowed per registration. Others may listen on this telephone line via an internal extension, or a speakerphone may be used for larger groups.
• You may not set up conferencing capabilities for other sites outside the facility. Each specific site may be used for larger groups. Each specific site must register individually.
• We cannot accept registrations without an email address and the name of a contact person.
• Registration for this teleconference will end at midnight ET on 9/12/2006.
• CDs will be available for purchase after the teleconference.

Cancellations

• Cancellations must be requested via an email message to our teleconference department.
• Cancellations received before the start (1:30 pm ET) of the teleconference will receive a full refund or credit.
• Cancellations received after the start (1:30 pm ET) of the teleconference and within 3 business days after the teleconference will be assessed a cancellation fee of $50.00.
• If your organization does not cancel within 3 business days after the date of the teleconference and does not participate, the full registration fee will be charged.

Materials

• If your organization's registered participant does not receive the teleconference materials that are sent out approximately 2 days before the teleconference via email, please send an email message to our billing department prior to the start of the teleconference.
  
• When registering, please be sure to provide the email address of the person to whom ISMP should send these materials.

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Accreditation Information:

NOTE: There is no additional charge for continuing education credits for this teleconference.

Pharmacy Continuing Education Continuing education credits will be provided by The Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group. PPAG is an approved provider of continuing pharmacy education by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). This program has been approved for 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEUs). The UPN is: 180-999-06-505-L01. Nursing Continuing Education Debora Simmons is approved by the California Board of Nurse Examiners as a provider of continuing nursing education. This program has been assigned the Universal Program Number CEP 13677 and is approved for 1 contact hours (0.1 CEUs) of continuing nursing education.