ASHP House of Delegates

The House of Delegates of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) considered a number of professional issues during its 60th annual session in Seattle. One such issue was…

“Standardization of Intravenous Drug Concentrations: To develop nationally standardized drug concentrations and dosing units for commonly used high-risk drugs that are given as continuous infusions; further, to encourage all hospitals and health systems to use infusion devices that interface with their information systems and include standardized drug libraries with dosing limits, clinical advisories, and other patient-safety-enhancing capabilities”.

Click here for more on this story.

 

Other stories

• PICC placement resource
• IV occlusion and vitamin E
• FDA update on heparin
• Intravenous history
• Intravenous iron management
• MicroAccess WAND FDA approval
• The colour purple
• Intravenous medication errors
• Needlestick injury report
• Patients paying for IV flush
• PICC placement kit
• Marines learn IV access

Add IVTEAM to Technorati Favorites