Special Edition | Medication Safety Alert! April 23, 2020

In this week's issue:

• Error-Prone Dose Expression on Label of Unapproved Drug, Ascorbic Acid, from Mylan
• Highlights of a COCA (Clinical Outreach and Communication Activity) webinar on insights from two health systems impacted by COVID-19
• COVID-19 Collaboration
  • Tripping on extension tubing
  • Identifying QT-prolonging drugs
  • Decontamination of N95 respirators
  • Warn patients not to take ivermectin for animals
  • FDA management of drug shortages
• Worth visiting…
  • ISMP COVID-19 Resources Page
  • American Diabetes Association (ADA) – Town Hall: Inpatient Care for People with Diabetes & COVID-19
  • American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) – Field/Surge Hospital and ICU Bed Expansion Responses to COVID-19
  • Wolter Kluwer – COVID-19 Resources & Tools
  • Medscape – COVID-19 Clinical Guidelines  
• Acute Care Action Agenda (January – March 2020)