background: exposure to blood-borne pathogens from needle-stick and sharp injuries continues to pose a significant risk to health care workers. these events are of concern because of the risk to transmit blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus, and the human immunodeficiency virus. objective: to benchmark different risk factors associated with needle-stick incidents am...

In 2006, ISMP (US) reported that prefilled saline syringes were being used for reconstitution or dilution of medications, with the medication being withdrawn from the vial back into the syringe. 1 ISMP alerted practitioners to the increased risk of medication error if syringes used in this way were not appropriately relabelled. This problem can be of particular concern if a high-alert medicatio...

BACKGROUND A shortage of the standard medication for treatment of patent ductus arteriosus has necessitated use of parenteral ibuprofen, which is equally efficacious for this indication. The beyond-use date recommended by the manufacturer is very short and has implications for resource allocation and wastage. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the stability of ibuprofen (undiluted or diluted in either 0.9...