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201. Don't Push | PSNet
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     March 02, 2011 - right after admission, it would have been appropriate to administer one of the atypical antipsychotic drugs … orally, instead of oral, intramuscular (IM), or IV haloperidol or other older, "typical" antipsychotic drugs … treatment, reserved for patients who fail to respond to one or two of the other atypical antipsychotic drugs … symptoms (EPS); the atypical drugs are much less likely to produce these adverse effects. … QTc interval is 440 ms or longer, and patients have electrolyte disturbance or are receiving other drugs

202. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 29, 2017 - This study targeted prescribing for drugs classified as requiring a black box warning by implementing … Certain specific alerts, such as warning against prescribing drugs contraindicated in pregnancy or those

203. Recommendations to improve the usability of drug–drug interaction clinical decision support alerts. | PSNet
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     February 14, 2024 - April 24, 2018 Impact of interactions between drugs and laboratory test results on diagnostic

204. Changes in prescription and over-the-counter medication and dietary supplement use among older adults in the United States, 2005 vs 2011. | PSNet
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     May 06, 2020 - more medications, they are at higher risk for adverse effects from supplements and over-the-counter drugs … June 19, 2019 Polypharmacy in the elderly--when good drugs lead to bad outcomes: a teachable

205. Two fatal cases of accidental intrathecal vincristine administration: learning from death events. | PSNet
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     March 24, 2021 - describes how the health care organization implemented changes (including using different bags for drugs … event and made further revisions when the second incident occurred 7 years later (such as ensuring drugs

206. To Dilute or Not Dilute: Drug Errors and Consequences in the Operating Room | PSNet
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     July 28, 2021 - Vasoactive drugs were administered to recover the blood pressure and the patient was ventilated with … Different drugs require different concentrations, and a typical anesthetic case requires the use of at … least four medications. 7 A study that measured the concentration of diluted drugs in the OR revealed … Some drugs require serial dilution and may come in different units of weight (e.g., mcg/ml vs mg/ml). … Leading to Difficult Intubation and Severe Hypoxemia June 30, 2021 Meitheal Pharmaceuticals

207. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2003 - The packages of both drugs, made by the same manufacturer, were almost identical. … However, when one realizes that the brand name of digoxin is Lanoxin®, and that in this case both drugs … Both are drugs that would be stocked on a typical neonatal unit, and the doses used are similar. … Packaging and look-alike/sound-alike drugs are thought to be important contributing factors. … The effects of a patients’ own drugs scheme on the incidence and severity of medication administration

208. Best Practices in Developing Proprietary Names for Human Prescription Drug Products Guidance for Industry. | PSNet
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     January 13, 2021 - August 9, 2017 Medicare’s Oversight of Compounded Pharmaceuticals Used in Hospitals. … About The Topic Non-Health Care Professionals Medication Safety Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Drugs

209. Timing and interventions of emergency teams during the MERIT study. | PSNet
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     June 02, 2010 - Australian study required critical care interventions such as airway management or use of inotropic drugs … January 15, 2009 Impact of interactions between drugs and laboratory test results on

210. Improving self-reporting of adverse drug events in a West Virginia hospital. | PSNet
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     March 10, 2011 - determined that incident reports were made for less than 4% of adverse drug events (ADEs) involving rescue drugs … October 1, 2014 Look alike/sound alike drugs: a literature review on causes and solutions

211. Guided prescription of psychotropic medications for geriatric inpatients. | PSNet
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     February 04, 2018 - Results indicate increased prescription of recommended doses, decreased prescription of nonrecommended drugs … May 27, 2011 Preventability of adverse drug events involving multiple drugs using publicly

212. Implementation of an integrated computerized prescriber order-entry system for chemotherapy in a multisite safety-net health system. | PSNet
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     August 30, 2023 - Variations in the administration of high-alert drugs can facilitate errors that result in patient harm … May 9, 2014 Computerized physician order entry of injectable antineoplastic drugs: an

213. Medication prescribing errors involving the route of administration. | PSNet
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     January 12, 2011 - involving prescribing for the wrong route (eg, orally instead of intravenously), and cardiovascular drugs … &M Cases Surprise Wire August 21, 2005 Cardiovascular drugs

214. Misconnection Leading to Arterial Thrombosis | PSNet
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     January 29, 2021 - to an intravenous catheter may have deadly consequences. 2 Inadvertent intraarterial injection of drugs … Some drugs are very irritating to the endothelium and cause thrombosis and necrosis, while others are … Approaches to Improving Patient Safety Avoid injecting drugs and air bubbles into arterial lines All … This color coding was put in place because unintended IV infusion of local anesthetic drugs intended … Inadvertent epidural injection of drugs for intravenous use. A review.

215. Unintentional Ketamine Overdose in the Operating Room – Mixing Up the Ampules | PSNet
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     March 25, 2020 - anesthesia than in other medical fields because anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists administer drugs … An anesthesiologist may, in fact, inject up to a half million doses of different drugs in his/her professional … Smaller ampules for more concentrated medications Concentrated solutions of drugs should be provided … http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm330695.htm . Accessed January 2021.   … WebM&M Cases Distraction of the Anesthesiologist and Lack of Resuscitation Drugs

216. Drug-drug interactions and actual harm to hospitalized patients: a multicentre study examining the prevalence pre- and post-electronic medication system implementation. | PSNet
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     August 26, 2020 - frequency of pDDI and cDDI orders did not differ between timeframes, although the likelihood of both drugs … Given the low prevalence of actual harm and the decreased likelihood of co-administration of drugs even

217. A cross-sectional observational study of high override rates of drug allergy alerts in inpatient and outpatient settings, and opportunities for improvement. | PSNet
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     July 02, 2019 - A few classes of drugs accounted for a large proportion of overridden alerts, suggesting that enhancing … the accuracy of allergy warnings for these drugs could significantly reduce the overall burden of alerts

218. Patient Allergies and Electronic Health Records | PSNet
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     August 21, 2005 - Doyle, MBBS Adverse reactions to drugs (including contrast media) occur frequently and were responsible … hospital annually between 1996 and 2000 (Hospital Episode Statistics) in the United Kingdom (UK).( 1 ) All drugs … suspected drug allergy, the following should be documented: generic and proprietary name of the drug or drugs … taken, or number of days on the drug before onset of the reaction; route of administration; and which drugs … Patients should expect and anticipate that both adverse drug reactions and allergies to drugs are appropriately

219. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     June 28, 2023 - Some drugs are very irritating to the endothelium and cause thrombosis and necrosis, while others are … Approaches to Improving Patient Safety Avoid injecting drugs and air bubbles into arterial lines All … who administer medications must be aware of the potential for serious thrombotic complications if drugs … This color coding was put in place because unintended IV infusion of local anesthetic drugs intended … Inadvertent epidural injection of drugs for intravenous use. A review.

220. Medication safety in the ambulatory chemotherapy setting. | PSNet
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     February 18, 2011 - Chemotherapeutic drugs share the characteristic of providing life-saving benefits at the expense of substantial … May 19, 2014 Characteristics of medication errors with parenteral cytotoxic drugs.