Adapter-based Safety Injection System for Prevention of Wrong Route and Wrong Patient Medication Errors
Journal of Korean Medical Science
;
: 1938-1946, 2017.
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in English
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| ID: wpr-159417
ABSTRACT
Wrong-route or -patient medication errors due to human mistakes have been considered difficult to resolve in clinical settings. In this study, we suggest a safety injection system that can help to prevent an injection when a mismatch exists between the drug and route or patient. For this, we prepared two distinct adapters with key and keyhole patterns specifically assigned to a pair of drug and route or patient. When connected to a syringe tip and its counterpart, a catheter injection-port, respectively, the adapters allowed for a seamless connection only with their matching patterns. In this study, each of the adapters possessed a specific key and keyhole pattern at one end and the other end was shaped to be a universal fit for syringe tips or catheter injection-ports in clinical use. With the scheme proposed herein, we could generate 27,000 patterns, depending on the location and shape of the key tooth in the adapters. With a rapid prototyping technique, multiple distinct pairs of adapters could be prepared in a relatively short period of time and thus, we envision that a specific adapter pair can be produced on-site after patient hospitalization, much like patient identification barcodes.
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Main subject:
Syringes
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Tooth
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Catheters
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Hospitalization
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Medication Errors
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Journal of Korean Medical Science
Year:
2017
Type:
Article
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