One 'mistake' that those in the medical field make with frightenting regularity is medication errors (wrong med, wrong dose and/or wrong delivery). To me, that is completely inexcusable. We were taught to check a med 3 times. Once when you pick it up, once when you draw it up and once again right beifre you give it.
In 14 years as a medic seeing literally thousands of patients in teh most hectic of situations, I NEVER even came close to making that kind or error, not even close. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > This morning, my son started to get nauseous again so my wife asked for > > fenegrin, an anti-emetic medicine, which was ordered for when he got > > nauseous. It took about 30 minutes for him to get it because the nurse > did > > not know how to administer the medicine. If my wife was not there to > talk > > her through it, who knows how long it would have taken. > > This one scares the crap out of me. My wife has been given phenegryn > shots several times for migraines (and has a pill prescription now). > It was great. Then I just read a month or so ago about the Supreme > Court ruling that a drug company could be sued for not putting > adequate warnings/instructions on their drugs even if the labeling was > approved by the FDA. > > What was the situation that caused the suit? Turns out that people > lose limbs if Phenegryn is given as intravenously instead of > intramuscularly. I knew that she had always gotten the shot in her hip > and I could have done it myself. But what if a nurse had tried to give > her the shot in her arm? Would I have tried to stop her and say, "um, > doesn't it normally go in her buttock?" I don't know. During those > times I'm just trying to comfort her while she is in horrid pain. I > might not think to question the nurse and I know more than most. > > There is so much to know in that field and so much that can go wrong > even with good intentions. Scary stuf > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293388 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
