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Vanishing bowl of local anesthetics: A lesson for sterile labeling

Author(s) -

P Narendra,

PrashantA Biradar,

AnilNanjundeswara Rao

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

anesthesia essays and researches

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 0259-1162

DOI - 10.4103/0259-1162.143166

Subject(s) - syringe , labelling , medicine , volatile anesthetic , anesthesia , drug labeling , anesthetic , drug , pharmacology , chemistry , biochemistry , psychiatry

It is well known that labelling is crucial in anesthetic practice. Syringe and drug preparation errors accounted for 452 (50.4%) incidents in the Australian Incident Monitoring Study database. We report a unique potential event of possible wrong route administration of medications where a bowl of local anaesthetics was mistakenly taken to the surgical trolley. This incident serves as lesson for practicing sterile labelling and identifying anaesthetic trolley.

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