| Medication wrong route administration: a poisons center-based study. | |
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PMID: 23421948 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Objectives: To describe clinical effects, circumstances of occurrence, management and outcomes of cases of inadvertent administration of medications by an incorrect parenteral route. Methods: Retrospective single-center consecutive review of parenteral route errors of medications, reported to our center between January 2006 and June 2010. We collected demographic data and information on medications, route and time of administration, severity of symptoms/signs, treatment, and outcome. Results: Seventy-eight cases (68 adults, 10 children) were available for analysis. The following wrong administration routes were recorded: paravenous (51%), intravenous (33%), subcutaneous (8%), and others (8%). Medications most frequently involved were iodinated x-ray contrast media (11%) and iron infusions (9%). Twenty-eight percent of the patients were asymptomatic and 54% showed mild symptoms; moderate and severe symptoms were observed in 9% and 7.7%, respectively, and were mostly due to intravenous administration errors. There was no fatal outcome. In most symptomatic cases local nonspecific treatment was performed. Conclusions: Enquiries concerning administration of medicines by an incorrect parenteral route were rare, and mainly involved iodinated x-ray contrast media and iron infusions. Most events occurred in adults and showed a benign clinical course. Although the majority of exposures concerned the paravenous route, the occasional severe cases were observed mainly after inadvertent intravenous administration. |
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Alexandra Bloch-Teitelbaum; Saskia Lüde; Christine Rauber-Lüthy; Hugo Kupferschmidt; Stefan Russmann; Gerd A Kullak-Ublick; Alessandro Ceschi |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Expert opinion on drug safety Volume: 12 ISSN: 1744-764X ISO Abbreviation: Expert Opin Drug Saf Publication Date: 2013 Mar |
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Created Date: 2013-02-20 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101163027 Medline TA: Expert Opin Drug Saf Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 145-52 Citation Subset: IM |
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Associated Institute of the University of Zurich, Swiss Toxicological Information Centre , Zurich , Switzerland. |
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