Vanishing bowl of local anesthetics: A lesson for sterile labeling

It is well known that labelling is crucial in anesthetic practice. Syringe and drug preparation errors accounted for 452 (50.4%) incidents in the Australian Incident Monitoring Study database. We report a unique potential event of possible wrong route administration of medications where a bowl of lo...

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Autores principales: Narendra, P. L., Biradar, Prashant A., Rao, Anil Nanjundeswara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886346
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.143166
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description It is well known that labelling is crucial in anesthetic practice. Syringe and drug preparation errors accounted for 452 (50.4%) incidents in the Australian Incident Monitoring Study database. We report a unique potential event of possible wrong route administration of medications where a bowl of local anaesthetics was mistakenly taken to the surgical trolley. This incident serves as lesson for practicing sterile labelling and identifying anaesthetic trolley.
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spelling pubmed-42589642014-12-08 Vanishing bowl of local anesthetics: A lesson for sterile labeling Narendra, P. L. Biradar, Prashant A. Rao, Anil Nanjundeswara Anesth Essays Res Case Report It is well known that labelling is crucial in anesthetic practice. Syringe and drug preparation errors accounted for 452 (50.4%) incidents in the Australian Incident Monitoring Study database. We report a unique potential event of possible wrong route administration of medications where a bowl of local anaesthetics was mistakenly taken to the surgical trolley. This incident serves as lesson for practicing sterile labelling and identifying anaesthetic trolley. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4258964/ /pubmed/25886346 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.143166 Text en Copyright: © Anesthesia: Essays and Researches 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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