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Post by harryx1 on Aug 4, 2018 11:29:54 GMT -5
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Post by harryx1 on Aug 4, 2018 11:32:18 GMT -5
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Post by mnkdfann on Aug 4, 2018 12:10:36 GMT -5
"Product use error - failure to remove inner needle cover" Amazing, just amazing. "The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) National Medication Errors Reporting Program (MERP) has received several reports of patients who failed to remove the inner cover of a standard insulin pen needle prior to attempting to administer the insulin. The latest event resulted in a fatality." www.ismp.org/alerts/severe-hyperglycemia-patients-incorrectly-using-insulin-pens-homeJust Breathe is a nice marketing slogan for Afrezza, doubling as a user instruction reminder. The insulin pens should have done something similar. Just Jab?
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Post by agedhippie on Aug 4, 2018 13:12:07 GMT -5
"Product use error - failure to remove inner needle cover" Amazing, just amazing. "The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) National Medication Errors Reporting Program (MERP) has received several reports of patients who failed to remove the inner cover of a standard insulin pen needle prior to attempting to administer the insulin. The latest event resulted in a fatality." www.ismp.org/alerts/severe-hyperglycemia-patients-incorrectly-using-insulin-pens-homeThe needles they are talking about look nothing at all like a regular insulin pen needle. I don't think you can plan for stupidity, and if the hospital never trained them to use regular pen needles, negligence. I am just impressed that people can screw up this badly!
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Post by peppy on Aug 4, 2018 13:21:12 GMT -5
The needles they are talking about look nothing at all like a regular insulin pen needle. I don't think you can plan for stupidity, and if the hospital never trained them to use regular pen needles, negligence. I am just impressed that people can screw up this badly! " I am just impressed that people can screw up this badly!" really? we don't know that people with diabetes go blind? Old people lose all close vision. this person could not see the clear cap aged. neonates grow many extra blood vessels in the eye secondary to oxygen therapy. in the olden days, 1980's many of them went blind. There was chronic lung disease secondary to mechanical ventilation in those days. (Prior to surfactant.) Where do we think Lasix comes from? they used it on the neonates in the late 90's to stop the vessel growth so there retina's wouldn't detach. Yeah I think that is the story.
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Post by wyattdog on Aug 4, 2018 13:33:19 GMT -5
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Post by agedhippie on Aug 4, 2018 16:16:53 GMT -5
The needles they are talking about look nothing at all like a regular insulin pen needle. I don't think you can plan for stupidity, and if the hospital never trained them to use regular pen needles, negligence. I am just impressed that people can screw up this badly! " I am just impressed that people can screw up this badly!" really? we don't know that people with diabetes go blind? Old people lose all close vision. this person could not see the clear cap aged. neonates grow many extra blood vessels in the eye secondary to oxygen therapy. in the olden days, 1980's many of them went blind. There was chronic lung disease secondary to mechanical ventilation in those days. (Prior to surfactant.) Where do we think Lasix comes from? they used it on the neonates in the late 90's to stop the vessel growth so there retina's wouldn't detach. Yeah I think that is the story. It isn't necessarily the patients I was thinking of when I made the screwing up comment, if the staff are not training people properly then they should be, umm, aggressively retrained. There is a huge difference in size and feel between the two needles though so sight should not really be an issue. Version with covered needle Regular needle
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Post by harryx1 on Aug 6, 2018 14:03:06 GMT -5
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Post by dh4mizzou on Aug 6, 2018 14:20:20 GMT -5
Harry. Thanks for posting that article !!! Now how much play do you think this will get? How many people will even get to read it? I ask because I was ignorant of this site/person before your post.
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