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Hospital Medication Errors | Episode 87
Episode two of the medication harm series is the hospital, where the drugs are strong, often intravenous, and the margin between a therapeutic and a harmful dose is narrow.
Michelle Carroll reframes the hospital medication case around a single question: which safety system should have caught this, and what does the record say about why it didn't. She walks through the four main systems and what each one logs. Barcode scanning records every warning and every override, with the user and the reason entered. Smart pumps store every program, rate change, alert, and override, and the pump log is…
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