Executive Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline: Safe Medication Use in the ICU

Sandra L Kane-Gill¹, Joseph F Dasta, Mitchell S Buckley+12

• ¹1Department of Pharmacy, Critical Care Medicine, Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Translational Science Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 2Critical Care Medication Safety Pharmacist, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA 3Division of Pharmacy Practice and Science, The Ohio State University, College of Pharmacy, Columbus, OH. 4Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Critical Care, Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix, Department of Pharmacy, Phoenix, AZ. 5Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD. 6Department of Pharmacy, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT. 7Dean and Professor, Touro College of Pharmacy, New York, NY. 8Chief Pharmacotherapy Officer, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. 9UPMC-Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA. 10Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 11Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Inova Children's Hospital, Falls Church, VA. 12College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. 13Pediatric Intensive Care Clinical Specialist, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA. 14Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Professor, Departments of Anesthesia/CCM and Surgery, and Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 15Director of Pharmacy, Seton Medical Center Williamson, Round Rock, TX. 16Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. 17Department of Pharmacy, UMass Memorial Specialty Pharmacy, Worcester, MA. 18Department of Nursing and Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.