Key result
Medication errors in anaesthesia and critical care are a major cause of morbidity and mortality driven by man, medicine, machine, and modus operandi.
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Urges vigilance against medication errors in anaesthesia; extends prior reviews on drivers but leaves optimal interventions open for prospective trials.
Medication error is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in medical profession, and anaesthesia and critical care are no exception to it. Man, medicine, machine and modus operandi are the main contributory factors to it. In this review, incidence, types, risk factors and preventive measures of the medication errors are discussed in detail.
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Kothari et al. (2010) studied this question. Medication errors in anaesthesia and critical care are a major cause of morbidity and mortality driven by man, medicine, machine, and modus operandi.
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