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, ...

Transitioning chemotherapy administration from the inpatient setting: Creating bed capacity and improving the patient experience. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 Quality Care Symposium.

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety gave safety recommendations for patient-controlled analgesia pumps to manage pain, according to The Sacramento Bee. PCA pumps are used for patients ...

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 ...

Karen Rago: The biggest value to having a checklist for PCA would be that the programming steps for use of the pump could be part of the checklist to eliminate over or under dosing a patient. In ...

The value of pain control includes improved patient satisfaction, decreased complication rates, shortened stays following surgery, and potentially reduced exposure to litigation. [8,13] Methods for ...

Designs of patient-controlled pain pumps that do not take into account human interaction with the equipment pose a serious threat to patient safety, University of Toronto researchers say. "We examined ...

Pfizer Inc PFE's Hospira unveiled the LifeCare PCA 7.0 Infusion System. According to the company, as the first patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) infusion pump to provide electronic medical record ...