As noted above, and in other reports in our newsletters, PCA errors can be deadly. Thus, special precautions are needed when administering narcotics to patients using this method of delivery, ...
Bryanne Patail, biomedical engineer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Patient Safety, discusses patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps and what the Veterans Health ...
A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...
With today's current focus on patient safety and medication administration, the ISMP and JCAHO have identified several consistently problematic areas for PCA use: PCA has been used successfully with ...
CHICAGO, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) has shared a new patient story video titled "Tyler's Story: A Deadly PCA Medical Error" on its YouTube ...
The FDA has alerted healthcare providers not to use Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) Monoject syringes with syringe pumps and patient-controlled analgesia, or PCA, pumps until it further evaluates reports ...
Use of a transdermal patch to deliver pain medication was found to be equivalent to medication delivered by an intravenous pump for controlling pain following surgery, according to a study in the ...
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