Medication Safety Alert! August 11, 2022

In this week's issue:

• An Interview: Success with Barcode Scanning to Enhance Perioperative Medication Safety
• Pfizer and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) respond to PAXLOVID (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir) error reports
• Risk of prescribing an overdose in athenahealth’s EHR (electronic health record)
• Look-alike MENACTRA and MENQUADFI (meningococcal conjugate vaccines) packages
• “Shellfish allergy” may be a red herring
• Meet our three new 2022-2023 Fellows
  • Tyler Nichols, PharmD, BCPS
  • Jose P. Nery, PharmD
  • Sadik Owolewa, PharmD
• ISMP perioperative guidelines are now available!