Open AccessAccidental intravenous infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate during labor: A case report
Author(s) -
Kamal Kumar,
Arif Al Arebi,
Indu Singh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9185.117105
Subject(s) - medicine , accidental , confusion , harm , anesthesia , magnesium , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , emergency medicine , psychology , physics , materials science , political science , acoustics , psychoanalysis , law , metallurgy
During labor and child delivery, a wide range of drugs are administered. Most of these medications are high-alert medications, which can cause significant harm to the patient due to its inadvertent use. Errors could be caused due to unfamiliarity with safe dosage ranges, confusion between similar looking drugs, mislabeling of drugs, equipment misuse, or malfunction and communication errors. We report a case of inadvertent infusion of a large dose of magnesium sulphate in a pregnant woman.