InotropicCongestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a progressive and often devastating condition for many Americans. While early stages of CHF can often be managed with oral medications, advanced stages of the disease require more aggressive therapy. Several of these medications, called inotropic therapy, are given intravenously. CuraScript IP has over 10 years of experience with inotropic therapy in the home.
ChemotherapyThis critical infusion therapy involves the intravenous administration of cancer treatment drugs directly into the blood stream. Many cancer treatment drugs can be administered in the home environment by oncology / cancer disease experienced nurses. Our pharmacists and nurses are also skilled in providing other supportive therapies that often accompany chemotherapy.
Pain ManagementPain not only causes physical discomfort, but can also affect the general quality of life. When oral medications aren’t successful in relieving pain, infusion therapy may be needed CuraScript IP is skilled at providing subcutaneous and intravenous infusions of pain medications as well as management of implanted pumps.
Nutrition Support
Total Parenteral Nutrition: (TPN) therapy is a highly concentrated nutrient fluid and involves the intravenous (IV) feeding into a special catheter of these life-sustaining nutrients through a large central vein.
Enteral Therapy: (EN) therapy is the administration of specialized liquid nutrient formulas using a tube into the stomach or small intestine. Patients are fed enterally when they suffer from a physical impairment that prevents them from taking sufficient nutrients by mouth to meet their needs. Enteral nutrition is many times referred to as “tube feeding".
Immune Globulin Intravenous Immune globulin therapy (IVIG) involves the intravenous infusion of immune enhancing drugs directly into the blood stream for treatment of primary immune deficiency and other autoimmune diseases. Many times these infusions last for several hours. CuraScript IP nurses are trained to clinically monitor patients receiving IVIG therapy to ensure comfort and safety.
Some patients receive their immune globulin infusions by subcutaneous infusion (SCIG), with the medicine infused just under the surface of the skin over several hours. Patients receiving SCIG infusions often learn to administer their own infusions after receiving training on the medication, pumps, and other processes involved with SCIG infusions. Even when patients give their own SCIG infusions, the CuraScript IP pharmacists and nurses communicate regularly with the patient to monitor the therapy and assure that everything goes well.
Other Therapies