These medication errors have occurred in health care facilities at least once. They will happen again-perhaps where you work. Through education and alertness of personnel and procedural safeguards, they can be avoided. You should consider publishing accounts of errors in your newsletters and/or presenting them at your in-service training programs. Your assistance is required to continue this feature. The reports described here were received through the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Medication Errors Reporting Program. Any reports published by ISMP will be anonymous. Comments are also invited; the writers' names will be published if desired. ISMP may be contacted at the address shown below. Errors, close calls, or hazardous conditions may be reported directly to ISMP through the ISMP Web site (www.ismp.org), by calling 800-FAIL-SAFE, or via e-mail at ismpinfo@ismp.org. ISMP guarantees the confidentiality and security of the information received and respects reporters' wishes as to the level of detail included in publications.
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Farm Hosp
November 2024
Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction: The objective of this study was to assess the implementation of safe medication practices in hospital emergency services, in order to understand the points of greatest risk as well as the safety challenges faced by these departments, and to plan collaboratively improvement initiatives.
Method: Multicentric and descriptive study based on completion of the "Medication safety self-assessment of emergency services" from May 16, 2023 to November 16, 2023, at voluntarily participating emergency services. The survey contained 93 items grouped into 10 key elements.
Food Chem
February 2025
National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, School of Food Science and Technology, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, PR China; Engineering Research Center of Food of Liaoning Province, Engineering Research Center of Special Dietary Food of Liaoning Province, Dalian 116034, PR China; Ganzhou Quanbiao Biological Technology Co., Ltd., Ganzhou 341100, PR China. Electronic address:
Int J Pharm Compd
October 2024
Wegmans School of Pharmacy, St. John Fisher University, Rochester NY.
Purpose: Healthcare providers often need to explore alternative options for patients who are unable to swallow whole tablets or capsules. Many newly approved immediate-release (IR) solid oral drugs carry a general "do-not-crush" warning or similar statements in their labeling without any explanations. A 2021 publication by Uttaro et al.
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August 2024
Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, España.
Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the implementation of safe medication practices in hospital emergency services, in order to understand the points of greatest risk as well as the safety challenges faced by these departments, and to plan collaboratively improvement initiatives.
Method: Multicentric and descriptive study based on completion of the "Medication safety self-assessment of emergency services" from 5/16/2023 to 11/16/2023, at voluntarily participating emergency services. The survey contained 93 items grouped into 10 key elements.
Front Oncol
July 2024
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Anesthesiology and Brain Functional Modulation, Clinical Research Center for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Translational Research Institute of Brain and Brain-Like Intelligence, Shanghai Fourth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Background: Pre-operative prediction of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is primarily based on the patient's medical history. The predictive value of gastric morphological parameters observed on ultrasonography has not been comprehensively assessed.
Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted to evaluate the pre-operative ultrasonographic measurement of gastric morphology for predicting PONV.
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