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O
nly in the OR can you prescribe, prepare and admin-
ister medications with no input from a second
provider and no electronic clinical-decision support
— and often under stressful or chaotic conditions.
What could possibly go wrong?
Ronald S. Litman, DO, ML | Philadelphia, Pa.
Tools to Improve Medication Safety
To eliminate administration mistakes, you have to eliminate
the human factor.
• HUMAN ERROR Well-intentioned surgical team members check and recheck labels, but medication administration mistakes
can still occur.
Pamela
Bevelhymer,
RN,
BSN,
CNOR
