Replacing Luer connectors: Still work in progress

Anaesthesia

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1059-1063

  Walker, I A ^a   Griffiths, R ^b   Wilson, I H ^c  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PETERBOROUGH CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CHLORHEXIDINE; VINCA ALKALOID; VINCRISTINE;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CAPNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EXTRAVASATION; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICATION ERROR; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEEDLE; PATIENT SAFETY; SYRINGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ENGLAND; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MEDICATION ERRORS; STATE MEDICINE; WALES;

EID: 78049500605     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2010.06536.x     Document Type: Editorial

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