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- Title
Medication STAT! How We Can Improve Safe Intravenous Medication Delivery in Critical Situations.
- Authors
Shea, Krista
- Abstract
Purpose/goals: Within critical care, the decision to administer medications is often made quickly, and during stressful situations. When clinical pressure is amplified, smart pump technology, with a customized drug library can reduce the risk of medication errors. Session description: As you walk into your patient's room, they reach up and grab for the ET tube. They were a difficult intubation, and you cannot jeopardize losing this tube. You bring the arm down to their side with one hand while your other hand reaches to program a bolus of Propofol. Your patient's blood pressure is dropping and you realize you have inadvertently programmed 400 mg rather than 40 mg. Without smart pump technology, this is the reality of critical situations; Errors can happen. However, with the integration of smart pumps and a customized drug library, errors such as this can be minimized. Hard and soft dose limits alert nurses when dose ranges outside of normal have been programmed and will not allow doses outside of the hard limits to be administered. Here is our story and success in preventing unnecessary medication errors since LHSC implemented the Baxter Sigma Spectrum, a smart pump technology with a robust dose error reduction system (DERS). Learning outcomes: 1. The learner will understand how improved detection of potential IV medication administration errors results in improved patient safety/care. 2. The learner will understand how smart pump technology can help prevent IV administration errors in critical situations.
- Subjects
DRUG infusion pumps; INTENSIVE care nursing; INTRAVENOUS therapy; PATIENT safety; POSTERS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 2, p59
- ISSN
2368-8653
- Publication type
Article