Errors and discrepancies in the administration of intravenous infusions: a mixed methods multihospital observational study [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction Intravenous medication administration has traditionally been regarded as error prone, with high potential for harm. A recent US multisite study revealed few potentially harmful errors despite a high overall error rate.
Bates, David W. +13 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of outpatient antimicrobial therapy with piperacillin-tazobactam in continuous infusion using elastomeric pumps and to evaluate the economic impact compared with conventional hospital ...
Jose Luis Lamas Ferreiro +7 more
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A Generic User Interface Architecture for Analyzing Use Hazards in Infusion Pump Software [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a generic infusion pump user interface (GIP-UI) architecture that intends to capture the common characteristics and functionalities of interactive software incorporated in broad classes of infusion pumps.
Curzon, Paul +4 more
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Determining Intravenous Complications in Patients with Infusion Pumps
Hemşirelikte Araştırma Geliştirme Dergisi, 2016 Objective: Intravenous infusion complications are placing patients at high risk and creating an economic burden for hospitals and health institutions. Available infusion pumps provide to decrease complications and patient safety.
Zehra Gök-metin, Leyla Özdemir
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Correction of target-controlled infusion following wrong selection of emulsion concentrations of propofol [PDF]
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2014 BackgroundWe investigated the correction methods following wrong-settings of emulsion concentrations of propofol as a countermeasure against erroneous target-controlled infusions (TCI).MethodsTCIs were started with targeting 4.0 µg/ml of effect-site ...
Yun-Jeong Chae +4 more
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Enteral feeding pumps: efficacy, safety, and patient acceptability. [PDF]
, 2014 Enteral feeding is a long established practice across pediatric and adult populations, to enhance nutritional intake and prevent malnutrition. Despite recognition of the importance of nutrition within the modern health agenda, evaluation of the efficacy ...
King, L, White, H
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Redesign and Accuracy Improvement of Disposable Infusion Pumps [PDF]
International Journal of Advanced Design and Manufacturing Technology, 2022 Nowadays, disposable injection pumps are widely used in hospitals and home care settings to provide various therapies such as chemotherapy, antimicrobial, analgesic, and anesthetic treatments, as well as for postoperative pain control and chronic pain ...
sajjad pakzad +3 more
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Epidemiology and natural history of central venous access device use and infusion pump function in the NO16966 trial [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Central venous access devices in fluoropyrimidine therapy are associated with complications; however, reliable data are lacking regarding their natural history, associated complications and infusion pump performance in patients with ...
A Surov +41 more
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Improving the clinical value and utility of CGM systems: issues and recommendations : a joint statement of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the American Diabetes Association Diabetes Technology Working Group [PDF]
, 2017 The first systems for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) became available over 15 years ago. Many then believed CGM would revolutionise the use of intensive insulin therapy in diabetes; however, progress towards that vision has been gradual.
Bergenstal, Richard M. +5 more
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Improved usability of a multi-infusion setup using a centralized control interface: A task-based usability test. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The objective of this study was to assess the usability benefits of adding a bedside central control interface that controls all intravenous (IV) infusion pumps compared to the conventional individual control of multiple infusion pumps.
Frank Doesburg +6 more
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