Fatal epidural infusion - Call for a system-wide change [1]

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 99-100

  Cyna, A ^a   Simmons, S ^a   Osborn, K ^a   Andrew, M ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALOTIN;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ERROR; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFUSION PUMP; LETTER; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SYRINGE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS; MEDICATION ERRORS;

EID: 0036174613     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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1. Cancer boy dies after doctors' drugs blunder
2. Patient died after being injected with wrong fluid
3. Fatal epidural infusion
4. Coronial warning after fatal epidural infusion
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6. Safety matters
7. Designing safer medical devices requires financial and political support