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Authors from Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, combined implementation of standard drug concentrations and “smart-pump” technology to reduce continuous medication infusion error rates. The authors developed standard concentrations for the 32 medications that comprise approximately 95% of all medications commonly delivered by intravenous continuous infusions. Depending on the medication, from 1 to 4 concentrations were needed to meet most pediatric patient needs. Next, a multidisciplinary task force (staff from nursing, pharmacy, clinical engineering, and the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units [NICU and PICU]) met …
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