Key result
System-level heparin errors cause 9 life-threatening neonatal overdoses, underscoring multidisciplinary prevention strategies.
Why the study?
System failures in hospitals can lead to life-threatening medication errors such as neonatal heparin overdoses, necessitating review of contributing factors and prevention strategies.
System failures can lead to life-threatening heparin overdoses in neonates, highlighting the need for multidisciplinary approaches to medication error prevention.
Neonatal heparin overdoses highlight persistent system risks; leaves open whether multidisciplinary strategies reduce errors in current practice.
Despite the efforts of many hospitals, system failures can result in medication errors that may be life threatening. During 2006 and 2007, nine neonates received potentially fatal doses of heparin. This paper will review contributing factors to the heparin medication errors and ways to minimize the risk of heparin overdose.
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Arimura et al. (2008) studied this question. Heparin medication errors due to system failures resulted in nine neonates receiving potentially fatal doses in 2006 and 2007, prompting a review of multidisciplinary prevention strategies.
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