Accidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: A case report

During labor and child delivery, a wide range of drugs are administered. Most of these medications are high-alert medications, which can cause significant harm to the patient due to its inadvertent use. Errors could be caused due to unfamiliarity with safe dosage ranges, confusion between similar lo...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Kamal, Al Arebi, Arif, Singh, Indu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24106365
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.117105
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description During labor and child delivery, a wide range of drugs are administered. Most of these medications are high-alert medications, which can cause significant harm to the patient due to its inadvertent use. Errors could be caused due to unfamiliarity with safe dosage ranges, confusion between similar looking drugs, mislabeling of drugs, equipment misuse, or malfunction and communication errors. We report a case of inadvertent infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate in a pregnant woman.
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spelling pubmed-37882392013-10-08 Accidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: A case report Kumar, Kamal Al Arebi, Arif Singh, Indu J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol Case Report During labor and child delivery, a wide range of drugs are administered. Most of these medications are high-alert medications, which can cause significant harm to the patient due to its inadvertent use. Errors could be caused due to unfamiliarity with safe dosage ranges, confusion between similar looking drugs, mislabeling of drugs, equipment misuse, or malfunction and communication errors. We report a case of inadvertent infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate in a pregnant woman. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3788239/ /pubmed/24106365 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.117105 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Accidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: A case report
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title_full Accidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: A case report
title_fullStr Accidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Accidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: A case report
title_short Accidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: A case report
title_sort accidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24106365
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.117105
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