As noted above, and in other reports in our newsletters, PCA errors can be deadly. Thus, special precautions are needed when administering narcotics to patients using this method of delivery, ...
Parents highlight dangers of PCA pumps to honor lost daughter. July 18, 2012— -- When Amanda Abbiehl's parents kissed her goodnight on July 16, 2010, they never imagined it would be for the last ...
Bryanne Patail, biomedical engineer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Patient Safety, discusses patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps and what the Veterans Health ...
Sign up for our FREE E-Weekly for more coverage like this sent to your inbox! 1. Ensure patients and families are provided information on proper use of the patient ...
A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...
Anesthesiologist Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, has helped develop a new checklist aimed at caregivers on the use of patient-controlled analgesia pumps, the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & ...
The parents of an 18-year-old Indiana girl who died two years ago after coming down with a strep throat infection have launched a foundation to raise awareness about the dangers of patient-controlled ...
Use of a transdermal patch to deliver pain medication was found to be equivalent to medication delivered by an intravenous pump for controlling pain following surgery, according to a study in the ...
Valley Cottage, NY, Dec. 06, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PCA or patient-controlled analgesia pumps is a way with which analgesic can be self-administered by the patient as and when needed.
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