As noted above, and in other reports in our newsletters, PCA errors can be deadly. Thus, special precautions are needed when administering narcotics to patients using this method of delivery, ...

Bryanne Patail, biomedical engineer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Patient Safety, discusses patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps and what the Veterans Health ...

With today's current focus on patient safety and medication administration, the ISMP and JCAHO have identified several consistently problematic areas for PCA use: PCA has been used successfully with ...

CHICAGO, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) has shared a new patient story video titled "Tyler's Story: A Deadly PCA Medical Error" on its YouTube ...

Anesthesiologist Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, has helped develop a new checklist aimed at caregivers on the use of patient-controlled analgesia pumps, the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & ...

The FDA has alerted healthcare providers not to use Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) Monoject syringes with syringe pumps and patient-controlled analgesia, or PCA, pumps until it further evaluates reports ...

Cardinal Health’s CAH Monoject syringes get unfavorable FDA recommendation following reports of delay in therapy as well as inaccurate therapy (overdose or underdose) when used with a syringe pump or ...

Use of a transdermal patch to deliver pain medication was found to be equivalent to medication delivered by an intravenous pump for controlling pain following surgery, according to a study in the ...