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Survey Shows Room for Improvement with Three New Best Practices for Hospitals
In our February 22, 2024 newsletter, we invited hospitals to participate in a short survey to establish a baseline of implementation for the three new Best Practices released in the 2024-2025 ISMP ...
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Call to Action: Standardization and Smarter Logic Needed to Prevent Drug Name Selection Errors
Problem: Since 2019, ISMP has recommended entering, at a minimum, the first five letter characters of a drug name (unless the name has fewer than five letters) during searches in automated dispensi...
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How to Navigate the New ISMP Website
ISMP has a new website (www.ismp.org) that has been integrated with the website of our affiliate organization, ECRI, to help simplify sign-ins and streamline access to our many services and product...
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Kentucky law prevents practitioners from being criminally charged for medical errors
We were pleased to learn that Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear recently signed a bill (House Bill 159) into law that protects healthcare practitioners from being criminally charged for medical errors...
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Implement Strategies to Prevent Persistent Medication Errors and Hazards: 2024
Reflecting on events that occurred in 2023, we have identified the top three medication errors and hazards that were recurring themes in the ISMP Medication Safety Alert!, which our affiliate ...
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Three New Best Practices in the 2024-2025 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals
ISMP has released its 2024-2025 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals, whose purpose is to identify, inspire, and mobilize widespread, national adoption of consensus-based Best Pr...
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Isoflurane Labeled “For Animal Use Only” in Cartons of Isoflurane Intended for Human Use
ISMP has received reports from several healthcare institutions that recently received cardboard cases labeled “Isoflurane USP 100 mL” by Piramal Critical Care (NDC 66794-017-10) (Figure 1) that act...
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Potassium Chloride for Injection Concentrate in EXCEL Plastic Bags
B. Braun recently announced a new presentation of potassium chloride for injection concentrate (2 mEq/mL) in a 250 mL EXCEL container plastic bag with blue and red labeling, and a blocked medicatio...
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Medication Safety Issues with Newly Authorized PAXLOVID
On December 22, 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for PAXLOVID, consisting of oral tablets of nirmatrelvir that are co-packaged with oral t...
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Age-Related COVID-19 Vaccine Mix-Ups
Ever since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the emergency use of a specific formulation (10 mcg/0.2 mL) of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine for ch...
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Dangerous Wrong-Route Errors with Tranexamic Acid
We recently learned about three cases of accidental spinal injection of tranexamic acid instead of a local anesthetic intended for regional (spinal) anesthesia. Container mix-ups were involved in e...
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Dangerous Wrong-Route Errors with Tranexamic Acid—A Major Cause for Concern
Problem: Earlier this month, we were notified about two cases of accidental intraspinal injection of tranexamic acid, occurring in two different states. Unfortunately, the report was sent anonymous...
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