While CPOE and other technologies provide valuable safeguards, another layer of safety is needed to provide nurses with comparable safeguards with respect to i.v. drug infusion. Oral orders and ...

Purpose: The frequency of drug administration errors and incompatibilities between intravenous drugs before and after an intervention in an intensive care unit (ICU) is discussed. Methods ...

Intravenous (IV) infusion systems ... Vasoactive Drugs: Medications that affect blood vessel tone and blood pressure, often used in critical care settings. This Nature Research Intelligence ...

“The infusion pump allows us to give medications continuously or over a certain period of time, just like the hospital or the ICU does, and it kind of fills in the role of another ...