The effect of the implementation of smart patient controlled analgesia (pca) pumps on pca administration safety.

• In: Hospital Pharmacy - Posters
• At: Istanbul (Turkey) (2009)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-103
• By: STEVENSON, James (University of Michigan Health System and College of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America)
• Co-author(s): Tran, Mai (University of Michigan Health System and College of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America)
  Ciarkowski, Scott (University of Michigan Health System and College of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America)
  Wagner, Deborah (University of Michigan Health System and College of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America)
  
• Abstract:

  Background: Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) provides excellent pain management, but has been associated with serious and sometimes fatal medication errors resulting from human factors. These include pump programming errors and placing the wrong drug/concentration of opioid into the pump. To prevent these types of errors, intelligent infusion

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