I, too, shared with pharmacy and today the director emailed that they had just read it. They have already pulled it from the formulary so that it cannot be given...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf of Gwen Irwin Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Phenergan I forwarded this to our pharmacists. They hadn't read it yet. Thank you, Tim, for sharing. We know this is a big problem based on our experiences, but having the ISMP issue an alert seems to be more valuable. I love this group. Gwen Irwin Austin, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darnell Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lynn Hadaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:11 AM Subject: Re: Phenergan > about time - couldn't be happier > > Darnell Roth > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lynn Hadaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:26 PM > Subject: Re: Phenergan > > >> Hallelujah, this is long overdue!! Lynn >> >> At 8:36 PM +0000 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>New as of today. >>> >>>The ISMP Medication Safety Alert, August 10, 2006 - Volume 11 Issue 16. >>> >>>The Institute for Safe Medication Practice. >>> >>>Action needed to prevent serious tissue injury with IV promethazine. >>> >>>"However, due to the frequency of severe, tragic, local injuries after >>>infiltration or inadvertent intra-arterial injection, ISMP recommends >>>that the FDA reexamine the product labeling and consider eliminating the >>>IV route of administration." >>> >>> Reference newspaper article: >>>http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2005/12/07/local_news/02news.tx t >>> >>>Please email me privately and I will send you the pdf newsletter as an >>>attachement. This is pretty good material to stop the use of IV >>>Phenergan. >>> >>> >>>Timothy Royer, BSN, CRNI >>>Nurse Manager / Vascular Access / Diagnostic Service >>>VA Puget Sound Health Care System >>>Seattle / American Lake Divisions, WA >> >> >> -- >> Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RNC, CRNI >> Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc. >> 126 Main Street, PO Box 10 >> Milner, GA 30257 >> http://www.hadawayassociates.com >> office 770-358-7861 >
