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Laura Celmins

PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, BCEMP

Rotations

Emergency Medicine

Education

PharmD: The University of New Mexico

Residency Training

PGY1: Cabell Huntington Hospital
PGY2 Emergency Medicine: University of Illinois at Chicago

Laura Celmins

Practice Interests

Anticoagulation reversal, neurologic emergencies

Professional Affiliation

  • Neurocritical Care Society 

  • American College of Clinical Pharmacy

  • American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

  • Society of Critical Care Medicine

Recent Publications

  • Fischer DP, Celmins LE. Safety of an Initial Insulin Bolus in the Treatment of Diabetic Ketoacidosis. J Pharm Pract. 2023 May 10:8971900231175705. doi: 10.1177/08971900231175705. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37162167.

  • Pharmacist involvement with antiepileptic therapy for status epilepticus in the emergency department.
    Paula Gawedzki, Laura Celmins, Daniel Fischer. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2022;59:129-32.

  • Initiation of a discharge pharmacy within a busy urban emergency department: The first year.
    Daniel Fischer, Alisha Patel, Adrienne Perotti, Samantha Bastow, Denise Scarpelli, Matt Lamb, Tom Spiegel, Kevin Colgan, Laura Celmins. American Journal of Health Sytem Pharmacy. 2022;79(17):1438-44.

  • Medical Student Screening for Naloxone Eligibility in the Emergency Department: A Value-Added Role to Fight the Opioid Epidemic.
    P. Quincy Moore, MD; Navneet Cheema, MD; Sarah Follman, MD; Laura Celmins, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCCCP; Greg Scott, PhD; Mai T. Pho, MD, MPH; Jeanne Farnan, MD, MHPE; Vineete Arora, MD, MAPP; Keme Carter, MD. MedEdPORTAL. 2021;17:11196.

  • Quality improvement and reconciliation process for automated dispensing cabinet medication overrides. James A M Rhodes, Deborah S Bondi, Laura Celmins, Charlene Hope, Randall W Knoebell. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 2021; Nov 1; Online ahead of print.

  • Moore QP, Cheema N, Celmins LE, et al. Point-of-care naloxone distribution in the emergency department: A pilot study. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2021 Feb 8;78(4):360-366.doi: 10.1093/ajhp/zxaa409.?

Academic and/or National Presentations

  • Seize the Day: Updates in Seizure and Status Epilepticus Management May 2022 UCAN Make a Difference: Critical Care and Trauma Conference Orland Park, IL

  • Push It Real Good: Push-Dose Vasopressors in the ED April 2022 Illinois Emergency Nurses Association Spring Symposium Lisle, IL

  • Treating Acute Pain in the Age of the Opioid Crisis April-May 2019 UCAN Make a Difference: Critical Care and Trauma Conference Merrillville, IN and Orland Park, IL

  • SCCM Advanced Pharmacotherapy in Critical Care 2021: Management of Excited Delirium and Acute Psychosis

  • Chicagoland Critical Care Conference 2021: COVID-19 in Children - Lessons From the ED and PICU

Current Research

  • Antiepileptic drug use in the ED (TBI prophylaxis, status epilepticus)

  • Treatment of opioid use disorder in the ED

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