Improving intravenous drugs administration in ICU and reducing drug incompatibilities: a nurselead interdisciplinary program
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Improving intravenous drugs administration in ICU and reducing drug incompatibilities: a nurselead interdisciplinary program
Introduction Many intravenous (IV) drugs are required for complex and polypathologic critically ill ICU patients management. ICU nurses are daily confronted with drugs preparation and administration (solvent type and volume, infusion rate). They also have to deal with drugs physiochemical incompatibilities (PCI), especially as various IV medications are delivered via a single catheter lumen. PC...
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عنوان ژورنال: Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2197-425X
DOI: 10.1186/2197-425x-3-s1-a720