Specialty clinical services – infectious diseases

Critical Care Systems is dedicated to providing high-touch, clinical care and customer service to both pediatric and adult patients with infectious diseases.  Each community-based branch pharmacy has a multidisciplinary team to manage a patient’s infectious disease support needs. 

What are infectious diseases?
Infectious diseases occur when the immune system fails to kill pathogenic microorganisms that grow within the body and cause disease.  Anti-infective therapy, the intravenous infusion of antibiotic, antiviral, or antifungal drugs, is used to treat infections that do not respond to oral medications. 

What is anti-infective therapy?
Anti-infective therapy can be provided safely in the home or alternate-site setting such as an ambulatory infusion suite. 

Home administration of anti-infective therapy is particularly beneficial for patients who require long-term anti-infective therapy or have chronic infections not treatable with oral agents.¹

Most anti-infective therapies are administered at specific intervals, typically two or three times a day, depending upon the specific drug. 

Critical Care Systems offers anti-infective therapies for a number of infectious diseases, including:

• Abscesses
• Bacterial endocarditis
• Cellulitis
• Chronic urinary tract infections
• Community acquired pneumonia
• Cystic fibrosis
• Lyme disease
• Osteomyelitis
• Pancreatitis
• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (most common in patients with AIDS)
• Post-transplant (secondary to immunosuppression)
• Sepsis
• Wound infections

The Critical Care Systems difference: our comprehensive approach to care

• We develop a customized plan of care focused on your needs
• Our locally based team provides consistency in patient care and customer service
• We offer 24/7 access to pharmacists and registered nurses specifically trained to administer and manage anti-infective therapy
• We schedule home infusions at your convenience
• We provide comprehensive therapy management, including disease-specific patient training and educational materials
• We provide ongoing patient evaluation, monitoring, and trending of lab values
• Benefits research services, with an explanation to the patient or patient’s caregiver of any financial responsibility he/she may have
• Prior authorization determination
• Our local ambulatory infusion suite provides a comfortable and convenient treatment option

¹ Milliman. CCS Analysis of Rhode Island Market Data – 2009, December 2009;