As noted above, and in other reports in our newsletters, PCA errors can be deadly. Thus, special precautions are needed when administering narcotics to patients using this method of delivery, ...
Bryanne Patail, biomedical engineer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Patient Safety, discusses patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps and what the Veterans Health ...
Use sedating medications, such as hypnotics or sedatives. Patients in these categories may require another form of pain management or careful monitoring for respiratory effects. All PCA pumps should ...
The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety is urging healthcare providers to boost electronic monitoring, including the use of both capnography and pulse oximetry, of all patients using ...
CHICAGO, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) has shared a new patient story video titled "Tyler's Story: A Deadly PCA Medical Error" on its YouTube ...
Anesthesiologist Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, has helped develop a new checklist aimed at caregivers on the use of patient-controlled analgesia pumps, the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & ...
The FDA has alerted healthcare providers not to use Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) Monoject syringes with syringe pumps and patient-controlled analgesia, or PCA, pumps until it further evaluates reports ...
During the projection period, it is anticipated that the global patient-controlled analgesia pumps market would expand at a CAGR of 5%. By 2033, the global market is projected to be worth US$ 729.1 ...
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