Pharmacists in the emergency department

October 29, 2008

Not the norm in the hospitals where I’ve worked, but I can see where they might come in handy.

I typically use Google or a number of online tools to identify pills, using the numbers on the pills as keywords.



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1 Anonymous October 29, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Have you seen the Epocrates Pill Identifier? It is available online and for the iPhone. You enter what the pill looks like and it shows you matches.
https://online.epocrates.com/noFrame/

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