The View from the Emergency Department: An Emergency Medicine Pharmacist's Perspective

A medication-focused review of older patients in the emergency department is important in identifying medication-related problems, differential diagnoses, and associated complications. With rapid triage, assessment, and diagnosis, the emergency department is inherently an area of empirical prescribing. Emergency department pharmacists are uniquely placed to review patients on presentation with a focus on both acute problem management and identifying and addressing long-standing medication issues.