Why the study?
Peri-operative medication safety is complex and avoiding errors requires addressing both system- and practitioner-based factors, including drawing up, labelling, and administering medications.
These guidelines provide a basis for instilling good practice in the handling of injectable medications during anaesthesia to reduce medication errors.
May improve peri-operative medication safety if adopted; leaves open effectiveness and implementation questions.
Peri-operative medication safety is complex. Avoidance of medication errors is both system- and practitioner-based, and many departments within the hospital contribute to safe and effective systems. For the individual anaesthetist, drawing up, labelling and then the correct administration of medications are key components in a patient's peri-operative journey. These guidelines aim to provide pragmatic safety steps for the practitioner and other individuals within the operative environment, as well as short- to long-term goals for development of a collaborative approach to reducing errors. The aim is that they will be used as a basis for instilling good practice.
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Kinsella et al. (2023) studied this question.
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