Volume 27, Issue 15
Medication Safety Alert! July 28, 2022
In this week's issue:
- Prevent Uncontrolled, Rapid Infusion Rates: Confirm Infusions Are Connected to Pumps Before Opening the Clamp!
- Multi-chamber bag parenteral nutrition (MCB-PN) is not without risk
- Risk-prone scenarios with multi-trace products
- Black port cover added to B. Braun's potassium chloride for injection concentrate bag
- Observe for possible ExactaMix 2400 valve set port leakage
- Accidental needlestick with EVENITY prefilled syringe
- Hidden pork content in gelatin capsules
- USP expiration date format
- Worth repeating… Norepinephrine left in a discontinued intravenous (IV) line administered as a bolus