Medscape

Medication Errors Involving Patient-controlled Analgesia

The value of pain control includes improved patient satisfaction, decreased complication rates, shortened stays following surgery, and potentially reduced exposure to litigation. [8,13] Methods for ...
Fierce Healthcare

Study: Patient Harm More Common with Patient-Controlled Pain Medication

(OAK BROOK, Ill. - December 1, 2008) Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) allows patients to control their own pain medication, but a new study published in the December 2008 issue of The ...
Becker's ASC

Better Order-Entry Systems Could Reduce Error in Patient-Controlled Analgesia

The combination of well-designed patient-controlled analgesia pumps, pre-printed physician orders and nursing education can reduce overall PCA administration errors and pump-programming errors, ...
Drug Store News

Study finds self-administration of injectable medications risky

OAK BROOK, Ill. Patients are four times more likely to inadvertently harm themselves if allowed to administer injected pain drugs to themselves, according to a new study. Published in the December ...
Medscape

Medication Errors Involving Patient-controlled Analgesia

Purpose: The magnitude, frequency, and nature of nonharmful and harmful medication errors associated with patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) were studied. Methods: A retrospective analysis of Medmarx, ...