In the context of in-hospital care management, need for infusion therapies involves choice appropriate devices. Historically, there is no consensus about preference vascular accesses, although data present in literature would seem to favor peripheral ones due fearful complications and a non-negligible rate bloodstream infections. It also true decision central routes sometimes dictated by patien...

Scientists rely on knowledge of error both in designing experiments and in interpreting results. I profile here the epistemic role of informal catalogs of past mistakes, or error repertoires (Mayo 1996). How do scientists develop and use such repertoires and install them in the infrastructure of science? Memory of error, I claim, is critical to progress in science. The road to wisdom?—Well, it'...