tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Pharmacotherapeutic friendly fire in the intensive care unit: high stakes seeking high calibre"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Pharmacotherapeutic friendly fire in the intensive care unit: high stakes seeking high calibre. | Available online http content 12 2 137 Commentary Pharmacotherapeutic friendly fire in the intensive care unit high stakes seeking high calibre Christopher S Parshuram1-5 1 Department of Critical Care Medicine Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Ontario Canada M5G 1X8 2Center for Safety Research Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Ontario Canada M5G 1X8 3Child Health and Evaluation Sciences Program The Research Institute Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Ontario Canada M5G 1X8 4Department of Pediatrics University of Toronto Ontario Canada interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine University of Toronto Ontario Canada Corresponding author Christopher S Parshuram Published 22 April 2008 This article is online at http content 12 2 137 2008 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2008 12 137 doi cc6858 See related review by Moyen et al. http content 12 2 208 Abstract Increasing numbers of patients are surviving the intensive care unit. Concordant with our shifting focus to minimizing intensive care unit-acquired morbidity in the present issue of Critical Care Moyen Camire and Stelfox describe the importance of quality pharmacotherapy. They describe challenges and potential solutions to this source of iatrogenic injury in our vulnerable patients. Their article reminds us not to understate the importance of medication error to avoid overstating the benefits of incompletely proven methods to prevent medication error and to distinguish harmful medication errors from other types of medication error. Medication error is the most commonly observed threat to patient safety in the intensive care unit ICU . In the present issue of Critical Care Moyen Camire and Stelfox describe the importance of quality pharmacotherapy 1 . Their narrative review provides insight into medication errors in this complex imperfect multistakeholder process. They discuss vulnerability error definition and measurement and .