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Misprogram a PCA Pump? It's Easy!

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, ...
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Reducing Errors With Patient-Controlled Analgesia Pumps: Q&A With Bryanne Patail of the National Center for Patient Safety

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 ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Alliances Urges Hospitals to Address PCA Pump Safety

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety is urging healthcare providers to boost electronic monitoring, including the use of both capnography and pulse oximetry, of all patients using ...
Medscape

Patient Safety Issues With Patient-Controlled Analgesia

With today's current focus on patient safety and medication administration, the ISMP and JCAHO have identified several consistently problematic areas for PCA use: PCA has been used successfully with ...
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The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety Releases New Patient Story Focussed on Patient-Controlled Analgesia

CHICAGO, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) has shared a new patient story video titled "Tyler's Story: A Deadly PCA Medical Error" on its YouTube ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Anesthesiologist Dr. Peter Pronovost Co-Develops New Analgesia Pump 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 & ...