CONTENTS -- REVIEWERS -- PREFACE -- Part I Crossroads Between Emergency Medicine and Pharmacy Practice -- Emergency Medicine: An Overview -- Challenges Facing Emergency Medicine Quality and Safety: Medication Management -- Aligning the Principles of Pharmacotherapy with Emergency Medicine -- Emergency Clinical Pharmacy Services: Historical Perspective and Systematic Review -- Unique Characteristics of the Emergency Department and the Emergency Department Pharmacist -- Academic-Based Emergency Department Clinical Pharmacy Services and the PharmER Pyramid -- Part II Anatomy of a Safe Medication Use System: Operational Considerations -- Defining a Safe Medication Use System in the Emergency Department -- Establishing Relationships in the Emergency Department: A Pharmacy Leadership and Advocacy Role -- Improving the Drug Order and Delivery Process in the Emergency Department with Information Systems -- Emergency Department Unit of Use Formulary and Drug Distribution System -- Reviewing Medications for Appropriateness in the Emergency Department -- Part III Assuring Quality of Emergency Care Pharmacotherapy: Focus on Quality Measures, High-Risk, High-Cost Medication, and Response to Medical Emergencies -- Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Emergency Department -- Significance of Drug Interactions in the Emergency Department -- Responding to Toxicologic and Public Health Emergencies -- Emergency Care Pharmacotherapy of the Critically Ill: Tools to Expedite Care -- Clinical Decisions and Instructional Support System: Clinical Pharmacy Service and Informatics -- Target Medication Reconciliation in the Emergency Department -- Emergency Care Pharmacotherapy Considerations in Special Populations: Geriatric, Pediatric, and Obstetric -- Part IV Fostering Interest in Emergency Medicine Pharmacotherapy.

Education for Emergency Medicine Pharmacotherapy: A Blueprint for PGY2 Specialty Training -- Designing an Undergraduate PharmD Intern Practice Model in the Emergency Department -- Role of the Pharmacy Technician: Use of Board- Certified Support Personnel to Facilitate Clinical Pharmacy Services in the Emergency Department -- Future of Clinical Pharmacy Services in the Emergency Department -- Appendices -- Policies and Procedures -- Dosing Guides and Tables -- Educational Outcomes, Goals, and Objectives for Emergency Medicine -- INDEX.