Medication error: An unfortunate reality

An Unfortunate Blow

Medication Error, What Is the Reason?

Background: Medication errors due to different reasons may alter the outcome of all patients, especially patients with drug poisoning. We introduce one of the most common type of medication error in the present article. Case: A 48 year old woman with suspected organophosphate poisoning was died due to lethal medication error. Unfortunately these types of errors are not rare and had some preven...

[Asthma and smoking: an unfortunate combination].

Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways in which a key role is played by certain cells and mediators (T-helper 2 cells, mast cells, eosinophils, interleukin 4 and 5). In certain disorders such as irritant-induced asthma, reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, and asthma due to toluene diisocyanate, inflammation is mediated predominantly by T-helper 1 cells, macrophages and neutrophils....

Asthma and Smoking: An Unfortunate Combination

Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways characterized by a disproportionate inflammatory response to specific or nonspecific stimuli.1 Some of the agents that provoke this response are known while others are not. After repeated exposure, these agents eventually trigger sustained inflammation that gets progressively worse, producing secondary alterations in the physiology of the bronchial res...

medication error, what is the reason?

background: medication errors due to different reasons may alter the outcome of all patients, especially patients with drug poisoning. we introduce one of the most common type of medication error in the present article. case: a 48 year old woman with suspected organophosphate poisoning was died due to lethal medication error. unfortunately these types of errors are not rare and had some prevent...