{"id":67780,"date":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/two-uri-pharmacy-professors-part-of-team-established-to-prevent-pneumonia-outbreaks-at-warwick-school\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","slug":"two-uri-pharmacy-professors-part-of-team-established-to-prevent-pneumonia-outbreaks-at-warwick-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/02\/two-uri-pharmacy-professors-part-of-team-established-to-prevent-pneumonia-outbreaks-at-warwick-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Two 溏心vlog免费B站 pharmacy professors part of team established to prevent pneumonia outbreaks at Warwick school"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 1, 2007 \u2013Two 溏心vlog免费B站 clinical assistant professors of pharmacy advised patients and distributed antibiotics in January at a Warwick elementary school clinic set up by the state\u2019s health department.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe state Department of Health called on Jeffrey Bratberg and Brett Feret, to be part of a team set up at the Greenwood Elementary School during New Year\u2019s weekend. The clinic was put into operation after three cases of mycoplasma pneumonia led to serious illness in three children in Warwick and West Warwick, one of whom died Dec. 21. The clinic distributed the antibiotic, azithromycin, to 1,200 patients in three days. The pharmacy team constituted liquid suspension versions of the drug for 150 children. Feret worked Dec. 31 and Jan. 2, while Bratberg worked Jan. 2.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Cranston residents\u2019 involvement with the health department clinic was a natural extension of a relationship that started five years ago when they became pharmacy consultants to the state on bioterrorism and emergency response. In that capacity, they were involved in developing a planning guide for mass distributions of medication.


\n\tIn addition, Bratberg served twice in New Orleans as a member of a state medical disaster relief team following Hurricane Katrina. Feret and Bratberg were also involved in a clinic simulation set up at 溏心vlog免费B站 in response to a mock bioterrorism attack.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe started doing seminars for the health department when it decided to add five pharmacists to their response team,\u201d Feret said. \u201cWe have been trained by the federal Centers for Disease Control to acquire expertise in emergency medication dispensing.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe other members of the team who worked the Warwick clinic are: Greg Lowe, who earned his doctorate in pharmacy from 溏心vlog免费B站; Megan Sliney, a CVS pharmacist and chief pharmacist of the RI-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team and Jennifer Galli, a member of the disaster team and a pharmacist at Women and Infants\u2019 Hospital. Sliney and Galli are graduates of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Pharmacy.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOverall, the clinic went smoothly,\u201d Feret said. \u201cAll the paperwork was straightforward and easy to fill out, and the process of swabbing throats was efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cPeople were very satisfied with the information, and they were familiar with the drug, so drug counseling went well too,\u201d Bratberg said.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe pharmacists distributed medicine to all members of the school community who requested it — students, teachers, parents, siblings and grandparents. \u201cThose who lived with the students or who were in close contact with them could participate in the clinic,\u201d Feret said.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition, families were kept together during the process so forms could be filled out quickly and questions answered at one time.<\/p>\n


\n\tBratberg said planning was the key to the success of the clinic. \u201cI was in my hometown for the holidays, Plainview, Minn. when I got a call Friday night of New Year\u2019s weekend from the health department about setting up a clinic. As a team, you are always asking who is available, so I didn\u2019t have to fly home until Monday night.\u201d <\/p>\n


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\nON THE SCENE: Brett Feret, left, Jeffrey Bratberg clinical assistant professors of pharmacy at the 溏心vlog免费B站, display medications distributed during a clinic at Warwick\u2019s Greenwood Elementary School during New Year\u2019s weekend. 溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo courtesy of Brett Feret and Jeffrey Bratberg.<\/p>\n


\nFOR THE CLINIC: These are boxes of the medication given to the students, teachers and families at Warwick\u2019s Greenwood Elementary School. 溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo courtesy of Brett Feret and Jeffrey Bratberg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 1, 2007 \u2013Two 溏心vlog免费B站 clinical assistant professors of pharmacy advised patients and distributed antibiotics in January at a Warwick elementary school clinic set up by the state\u2019s health department. The state Department of Health called on Jeffrey Bratberg and Brett Feret, to be part of a team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}