Medication errors in anesthesia can have serious consequences for patients, including morbidity and mortality. These occur at any stage of the medication administration process, from prescribing preparation to monitoring. Learning is essential improving patient safety anesthesia. To address anesthesia, various strategies been developed, use checklists, protocols, simulation training. The implem...

Medications given via the intravenous (IV) route provide rapid drug delivery to the body. IV therapy is a complex process requiring proper drug preparation before administration to the patients. Therefore, errors occurring at any stage can cause harmful clinical outcomes to the patients, which may lead to morbidity and mortality. This was a prospective observational study with the objectives to...

Cytostatics which are drugs used to treat oncologic diseases belong to very dangerous substances. These drugs often have very low therapeutic index, i.e. the difference between therapeutic and toxic dose is very low. Wrong dose can thus endanger the patient very easily. As these drugs are perilous also for the personnel who are handling them, Czech laws demand that the personnel concerned pass ...

educational centers are of those types of organizations to which almost everyone refer during the life to use the services. accordingly, the suitability of safety situation in these organizations is of high importance. the present study aims at investigation of effective factors on safety management in educational-training organizations of metropolises. this study is an applied descriptive rese...

OBJECTIVE Chemical reactions involved in preparing 99mTc radiopharmaceuticals occasionally result in products of substandard purity. A retrospective examination of preparation problems that occurred in the author's institution was conducted to better define the incidence, recognize patterns and identify causes of substandard 99mTc radiopharmaceutical products. METHODS All 99mTc radiopharmaceu...