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