PULSE: Albumin and Loop Diuretics for Fluid Management: Dynamic Duo or Double Trouble?
New medications and new guidelines are constantly being released. Pharmacists need a mechanism to keep up with these new medications and guidelines.
Target Audience
Pharmacist
Learning Objectives
Explain the pharmacokinetic interaction between albumin and loop diuretics and how that may affect diuretic efficacy
Identify the available literature for combination therapy with albumin and a loop diuretic in the setting of edema
Discuss patients who may benefit from albumin and loop diuretic combination therapy
New medications and new guidelines are constantly being released. Pharmacists need a mechanism to keep up with these new medications and guidelines.
Shawn Meehl, PharmD
PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside Hospital
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 1.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE PharmacyThe UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.