Improve the safety of using medications
- Remove concentrated electrolytes (e.g., Potassium
chloride,
Potassium Phosphate, sodium chloride > 0.9%) from patient care
areas
- Standardize and limit the number of drug concentrations
available
in the organization
- Identify and, at a minimum, annually review a list
of look-alike/
sound-alike drugs used in the organization, and take action to
prevent errors involving the interchange of these drugs
- Label all medications, medication containers (e.g.
syringes, medicine
cups, basins) or other solutions on and off the sterile field in
perioperative and other procedural settings
***All need to be labeled, all procedures including anesthesia and
OR
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