Anesthesia providers are regularly responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and determining pharmacologic treatment of a problem. This critical workflow often includes medication preparation. Decision making in anesthesia frequently requires rapid intervention, and caring for the pediatric population poses additional challenges, such as needing to quickly calculate the weight-based dosing of medications. The objective of this review article was to identify and describe themes related to pediatric medication errors associated with anesthesia. Additional goals of the review consisted of identifying and comparing various error reduction strategies with a primary goal of communicating the most effective methods to reduce medication errors in the pediatric population. Screening criteria were set, and 17 published scholarly articles meeting inclusion criteria were evaluated using a systematic process. Common themes found leading to medication errors were incorrect dosing, incorrect medication, syringe swap, wrong patient, and wrong dosing interval. The most valuable and sustainable error reduction strategies found were standardized labeling, prefilled syringes, and 2-person medication checks. It is believed that this review will expound on the factors that can be controlled or minimized to decrease the incidence of anesthesia-related pediatric medication errors and facilitate implementation of risk mitigation strategies immediately into clinical practice.

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