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Medication errors rank in the top five reasons for all malpractice lawsuits, 1 and in the ICU, over 20% of medication errors are due to IV line mixups. 2 We have a solution.
1. 2012 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank
2. Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Amanda Wollitz, PharmD, Patient Safety Analyst; Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP, Manager, Medication Safety Analysis. Aligning the Lines: An Analysis of IV Line Errors. Pa Patient Saf Advis 2014 Mar;11(1):1-7
Managing IV medication lines of the fragile patients in the ICU is extremely time consuming and prone to error.
Infusion line differentiation can be a matter of life and death and ICU patients often receive more than twice the number of IV drugs compared to non-ICU patients. 3
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 99% of physicians face at least one lawsuit by age 65. 4 According to data from the 2012 Annual Report from the National Practitioner Data Bank, $3.6 billion was paid in medical malpractice payouts just that year. People receiving inpatient care made up 45% of cases, and medication errors ranked in the top five reasons for all malpractice lawsuits. 5
Adverse drug events represent the most common medical error in the United States. 6 We know that the higher number of drugs being infused to a patient intravenously translates into a greater likelihood of an adverse drug event, 7 as mixing up any one of those lines may have fatal consequences. In the ICU, nearly 40% of medication errors occur during administration, 8 and over 20% of errors are due to IV line mixups. 9
3. Intensive Care Medical Experimental Doesburg et al. Intensive Care Medicine Experimental 2015, 3(Suppl 1):A555 http://www.icm-experimental.com/content/3/S1/A555
4. New England Journal of Medicine
5. 2012 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank
6. StatPearls Carver N, Gupta V, Hipskind JE. Medical Error. [Updated 2020 Jul 10]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430763/
7. Critical Care Medicine Kane-Gill, Sandra L. PharmD, MSc, FCCM, FCCP; Kirisci, Levent PhD; Verrico, Margaret M. RPh; Rothschild, Jeffrey M. MD, MPH Analysis of risk factors for adverse drug events in critically ill patients*, Critical Care Medicine: March 2012 - Volume 40 - Issue 3 - p 823-828 doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318236f473
8. BMJ Quality & Safety Carayon P, Wetterneck TB, Cartmill R, Blosky MA, Brown R, Kim R, Kukreja S, Johnson M, Paris B, Wood KE, Walker J. Characterising the complexity of medication safety using a human factors approach: an observational study in two intensive care units. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014 Jan;23(1):56-65. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2013-001828. Epub 2013 Sep 19. PMID: 24050986; PMCID: PMC3938094.
9. Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Amanda Wollitz, PharmD, Patient Safety Analyst; Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP, Manager, Medication Safety Analysis. Aligning the Lines: An Analysis of IV Line Errors. Pa Patient Saf Advis 2014 Mar;11(1):1-7.
Lightengale mitigates potentially dangerous errors with a simple, yet powerful solution.
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By using light-emitting cables, nurses can illuminate individual IV lines from pump to patient, thereby reducing risk and increasing patient safety.
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Manufactured with simple, reliable components, Lightengale IVT System requires zero additional set-up or modifications of current protocols.
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Rather than adding steps or color codes or protocols, this solution reduces the complex nature of tracing infusion lines, thereby reducing risk for error.
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Despite the prevalence of IV administration errors, there remains a low appreciation for this common threat to patient safety.
While a crucial step for nurses to prevent mixups, manual line tracing is time consuming and prone to error. Using line labels to identify each end of a line is better than nothing, but in one study, incomplete labeling of IV tubing represented over 31% of documentation errors. 10
Patient safety demands a better solution. Lightengale simplifies what was complex and brings reliable precision where it is needed most.
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10. Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy Summa-Sorgini C, Fernandes V, Lubchansky S et al. Errors Associated with IV Infusions in Critical Care. Can J Hosp Pharm. 2012;65(1):19-26. doi:10.4212/cjhp.v65i1.1099
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