Emergency medicine pharmacists on an international scale

Emergency Medicine (EM) clinical pharmacy services in the USA were first described in the literature in the 1970s. Initially, the role was confined mainly to medication distribution, but has evolved significantly into clinical practice while the number of EM pharmacists has steadily increased.1 Inclusion of clinical pharmacists in EM has been supported by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), American College of Medical Toxicology; and most recently, the American College of Emergency Physicians.2

This support is due to decades of bedside practice and evidence of benefit. The contribution of clinical pharmacists on multidisciplinary teams has been shown to reduce patient mortality,3 hospital readmissions4 and medication errors.5 Further, EM clinical pharmacists have demonstrated improvement in time-sensitive therapies in the ED, such as reductions in time to administration of antibiotics in sepsis,6 analgesics in trauma,

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