Untangling Infusion Confusion: A Comparative Evaluation of Interventions in a Simulated Intensive Care Setting

Objectives: Assess interventions’ impact on preventing IV infusion identification and disconnection mix-ups. Design: Experimental study with repeated measures design. Setting: High fidelity simulated adult ICU. Subjects: Forty critical care nurses. Interventions: Participants had to correctly identify infusions and disconnect an infusion in four different conditions: baseline (current practice); line labels/organizers; smart pump; and light-linking system. Measurements and Main Results: Participants identified infusions with significantly fewer errors when using line labels/organizers (0; 0%) than in the baseline (12; 7.7%) and smart pump conditions (10; 6.4%) (p
Source: Critical Care Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Online Brief Report Source Type: research