Volume 21, Issue 16
Medication Safety Alert! August 11, 2016
In this week's issue:
- What Price Must We Pay for Safety? Excessive Cost of EPINEPHrine Auto-Injectors Leads to Error-Prone Use of Ampuls or Vials and Unprepared Consumers
- Low dose enteral syringe tip gets Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance
- Burns during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) from patches with metal in the backing
- Risk with entering "test order"