A novel device to prevent errors in medication dosing and dispensing

Erroneous intravenous drug administration has a high probability of causing patient morbidity or mortality during anesthesia. Anesthesiologists are cognizant of this longstanding issue, which has prompted the development of a variety of different protocols and solutions designed to ameliorate the problem and ultimately improve patient outcomes. Unfortunately, no definitive solution has been developed yet. Our invention is a medical device designed to drastically reduce, and hopefully upon further development, refinement and subsequent iterations, completely eradicate the potential for medical errors involving medication misidentification and quantitative errors in anesthetic dosing and dispensing.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Translational Pediatrics

• Publication date

  2020-02-25

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.21037/tp.2020.02.05PMID 32477913PMCID 7237971
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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