Post by Moishe Mayer on Sept 30, 2017 20:42:46 GMT -5
1. Should anesthesia providers give IV drugs that are already drawn up by a previous provider? Do you know what that "clear medicine" is if you didn't draw it up?
I think we should be able to administer drugs that were drawn up by another provider. If we cannot trust another provider to draw up and label medications properly, then how can we trust another provider for any anesthesia related task. Of course, if there is a clear medicine that is not labeled it should not be used.
2. If an anesthesia provider administers Zofran IVP or Sugammadex IVP at the end of a case and a patient becomes acutely and severely hemodynamically unstable and dies because the drug was actually vasopressin but was mistakenly prepared by the other provider who would be responsible for the medical error?
That is a great question. Assuming the medication was labeled as Zofran, I would have to speculate that the other provider would be responsible.
I think we should be able to administer drugs that were drawn up by another provider. If we cannot trust another provider to draw up and label medications properly, then how can we trust another provider for any anesthesia related task. Of course, if there is a clear medicine that is not labeled it should not be used.
2. If an anesthesia provider administers Zofran IVP or Sugammadex IVP at the end of a case and a patient becomes acutely and severely hemodynamically unstable and dies because the drug was actually vasopressin but was mistakenly prepared by the other provider who would be responsible for the medical error?
That is a great question. Assuming the medication was labeled as Zofran, I would have to speculate that the other provider would be responsible.