ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®
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The articles listed below were featured in the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! newsletters. New articles are frequently published highlighting important medication safety information. Related articles can be found in the full newsletter publications. You can subscribe to the full newsletters here.
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As we began our Thanksgiving holiday last year, we had just learned that a 69-year-old woman had died due to a medication error that was caused in large part by an easily remedied safety problem-mistaken identity of products in unlabeled basins during a sterile procedure (ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Loud wake-up call: unlabeled containers lead to patient's death. December 2, 2004). This Thanksgiving holiday season, we were saddened and alarmed to learn that yet another easily remedied safety problem- accidental intrathecal administration of IV vincristine-had claimed the life of a 21-year...