PHAST PHACTS

​​PHAST PHACTS is prepared weekly by the palliative care pharmacy team and deals with a broad range of medication-related issues from the perspective and expertise of palliative care.

If you have a topic you would like the palliative care pharmacy team to address, or if you would like to receive PHAST PHACTS weekly, contact pruskowskija@upmc.edu.

2017 PHAST PHACTS

• Antipsychotics and Delirium: To prescribe or not to prescribe?
• What is better for appetite stimulation: megace or dronabinol?
• Getting to the heart of the cardiovascular effects of CNS stimulants
• What’s new in palliative care medications (2017) – Brexpiprazole (Rexulti®)​