Alan Merry

Medication Safety during Anesthesia and the Perioperative Period (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With medication errors in healthcare an internationally recognised problem, this much-needed book delivers a comprehensive approach to understanding medication safety in the perioperative period. It reviews what medication adverse events are, and how often and where these errors occur, as well as exploring human cognitive psychology and explaining why things can go wrong at any time in a complex system. Detailed discussions around mistakes, judgement errors, slips and lapses, and violations, are presented alongside real-life examples of the indistinct line between negligence and inevitable error. The co-authors bring a wide and practical perspective to the theories and interventions that are available to improve medication safety, including legal and regulatory actions that further or impede safety. Essential reading for anesthesiologists, nurses, pharmacists and other perioperative team members committed to improving medication safety for their patients, and also an invaluable resource for those who fund, manage and regulate healthcare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009031172
• Artikelnr.: 62737677

Autorenporträt

Alan Merry is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Medication Safety in Anesthesia and the Perioperative
Period; 2. Frequency and Nature of Failures in Medication Safety during
Anesthesia and the Perioperative Period; 3. Frequency and Nature of
Failures in Medication Safety in the Intensive Care Unit and Ward; 4.
Impact of Medication Errors on the Patient and Family: Managing the
Aftermath; 5. Consequences for the Practitioner; 6. Why Failures Occur in
the Safe Management of Medications; 7. Errors in the Context of the
Perioperative Administration of Medications; 8. Violations and Medication
Safety; 9. Interventions to Improve Medication Safety; 10. Medication
Safety in Special Contexts; 11. Legal and Regulatory Responses to Avoidable
Adverse Medication Events in Anesthesia and the Perioperative Period Part
I: General Principles; 12. Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Responses to
Avoidable Adverse Medication Events in Anesthesia and the Perioperative
Period Part II: Practical Examples; 13. Barriers to Improving Medication
Safety: Why is Patient Safety So Hard?; 14. Conclusions.