Intravenous Medication Administration Safety with Smart Infusion Pumps in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: An Observational Study.
Journal
Drug safety
ISSN: 1179-1942
Titre abrégé: Drug Saf
Pays: New Zealand
ID NLM: 9002928
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
27 Oct 2023
27 Oct 2023
Historique:
accepted:
09
10
2023
medline:
27
10
2023
pubmed:
27
10
2023
entrez:
27
10
2023
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are among the most vulnerable patient populations and medication errors are a significant source of risk and harm to neonates. Smart infusion pumps have been implemented to support the safe medication administration process; however, the effect of using smart infusion pumps on medication safety in the NICU is still unclear. We conducted an observational study with a prospective point-prevalence approach to investigate intravenous (IV) medication administration errors in the NICU at one academic medical center in the USA. Observations were conducted in 48 days in a 3-month data collection period in 2019. We observed a total of 441 patients with 905 IV medication administrations during the data collection period. The total number of errors was 130 (14.4 per 100 administrations). Of these, the most frequent errors were selecting the wrong drug library entry (5.3 per 100 administrations), unauthorized medication (0.7 per 100 administrations), and wrong dose (0.6 per 100 administrations). Sixty-eight errors (7.5 per 100 administrations) were unlikely to cause harm despite reaching the patient (category C errors), while the rest did not reach the patient. We identified the medication errors, which was unique to NICU populations, but no harm to the patients were identified. Most errors occurred due to a lack of compliance of using smart pump technology; therefore, potential exists to maximize safety related to medication administration practices in the NICU through hospital policy change and increasing adherence to appropriate use of smart pump technology.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37889401
doi: 10.1007/s40264-023-01365-6
pii: 10.1007/s40264-023-01365-6
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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