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 an experienced multidisciplinary team who can manage all aspects of 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.
Anti-Infective Therapy
Anti-infective therapy can be provided safely in the home or alternate-site setting such as an ambulatory infusion suite. Benefits include improved patient quality of life and increased patient satisfaction, decreased costs associated with hospital stays, and decreased risk of hospital acquired infections.
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.
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 (possibly post surgical)
- 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
Anti-Infective Therapy Program: The Critical Care Systems Difference
Our Comprehensive Approach to Care
- Local full-service branch pharmacies staffed with experienced pharmacists, nurses, client service representatives and reimbursement specialists who can manage all aspects of a patient’s autoimmune disorder support needs
- A flexible service model, offering high-touch patient care and clinical management in the home or alternate site settings, such as our ambulatory infusion suites (AIS) or a physician’s office
- Ongoing patient evaluation, monitoring and trending of patient lab values
- Resources and support available for bilingual or hearing impaired individuals
- Extensive anti-infective product availability
Clinical Excellence
- Registered nurses and clinical pharmacists provide first-dosing, monitor administration-related side effects of anti-infectives and assist with management of anti-infective products based upon diagnoses
- Standardized anti-infective protocols help to minimize adverse reactions
- Fully-licensed JCAHO accredited pharmacies with ISO 5 (class 100) compounding environments, meeting USP 797 mixing standards
Our Service Commitment
- High-touch patient care and customer service provided by professional, experienced and friendly staff
- Registered nurses and clinical pharmacists specifically trained in administering specialty infusion available 24/7
- Local reimbursement specialists verify patient benefits, obtain authorization and assist with insurance coverage guidelines and questions
Assistance with patient evaluation and discharge planning support from hospital/clinic to home
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