Icu Medical Errors

The five most common errors in the ICU - Today's …

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Patient Safety in the ICU | Critical Care | AccessMedicine …

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The intensive care unit (ICU) is particularly prone to medical errors as patients are very ill and require continuous monitoring. A patient safety program that drives improvement for …

Doing More Can Be Worse: Ten Common Errors in the ICU

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Fluid Overload. Intravenous (IV) fluid therapy is the mainstay treatment for patients with …

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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Medical errors are also associated with extremes of age, new procedures, urgency, and the severity of the medical condition …

Clinical practice guideline: safe medication use in the ICU.

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Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) may be particularly vulnerable to medication errors due to the complex nature of their care. Prior research has shown that …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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Medical errors are a serious public health problem and a leading cause of death in the United States. It is challenging to uncover a consistent cause of errors and, even if found, to provide …

Understanding medical errors and adverse events in ICU …

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Understanding medical errors and adverse events in ICU patients Intensive Care Med. 2016 Jan;42(1):107-9. doi: 10.1007/s00134-015-3968-x. Epub 2015 Aug 7. Authors Maité …

Processes to Reduce Medication Errors in the ICU

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Shulman R et al. (2005) Medication errors: a prospective cohort study of hand-written and computerised physician order entry in the intensive care unit. Crit Care. 9(5): R516 …

Understanding medical errors and …

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Medical errors are the consequence of multiple actions of a whole chain of organizational and humans interactions in which the individual does not have the intention of doing wrong (Fig. 1 ). …

Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: Looking for …

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2 days ago · This observational study demonstrated the incidence of prescription errors in a medical ICU at a tertiary care hospital to be 10.7%. However, only 3.5% were severe …