Dear Medication Safety Officers:

I hope this message finds you well!

Are you aware of a benchmark for naloxone use per number of opioid administrations? If not, do you have an idea of a resource that may offer this sort of benchmark?

Have any of your institutions completed vaccine stability studies to determine stability outside of manufacturer-recommended storage requirements (that you'd be willing to share)? I'm interested to understand whether refrigerated vaccines (storage recommendations 2-8C) that are exposed to temperatures <0C are stable. The vaccine manufacturers I've contacted do not have data/have not studied the vaccines this way and so they cannot support their use in these situations.

Thanks in advance!

Hello all

I had a question come to me from outside my organization for which I am asking for the input of others:

Regarding the instillation of chemotherapeutic agents in the bladder, what strategies have your institutions taken to avoid a wrong route event? Any SOPs or checklists or anything you want to share is appreciated. (the very real hazard is for the drug to be given IV push inadvertently).

I’m honestly asking for a friend because luckily, my organization is open and transparent about participation in list serves but not everyone’s employers are that way.

Good afternoon Medication Safety friends and colleagues,
Our organization is looking Into creating a dashboard for formulary management and monitor utilization. We saw that many organizations have home grown dashboards. Does anyone know if there is a commercially available software that you are familiar with? Thank you all for your insights.
Sincerely,
Mohamed Sarg

Good afternoon Medication Safety friends and colleagues,
Our organization is looking Into creating a dashboard for formulary management and monitor utilization. We saw that many organizations have home grown dashboards. Does anyone know if there is a commercially available software that you are familiar with? Thank you all for your insights.
Sincerely,
Mohamed Sarg

Has anyone come up with a good solution to maintain a non-punitive environment by ensuring employees do not feel like their mistakes are kept in their personnel file, but yet ensuring there is a way to track trends of errors and non-compliance with policies by individual?

Thank you,
Shannon

Good afternoon Medication Safety friends and colleagues,
Our organization is looking Into creating a dashboard for formulary management and monitor utilization. We saw that many organizations have home grown dashboards. Does anyone know if there is a commercially available software that you are familiar with? Thank you all for your insights.
Sincerely,
Mohamed Sarg

Has anyone noticed COVID patients requiring higher than usual doses of neuromuscular blockers on ventilators? We have had several patients maxed out on cisatricurium and still over-breathing the vent...

thanks!

We are an Epic hospital and are considering adding a patient specific bar code on insulin pens to help prevent wrong patient errors. For hospitals with experience with this:
1. Has the patient specific bar code been successful in decreasing wrong patient errors with insulin pens?
2. Has there been any issues/errors associated with using a patient specific bar code?
3. Do you use Dispense Prep or any other verification technology to ensure the right label is placed on the right pen in Pharmacy?

Hi: wondering if anybody has figured out how to conduct an effective double check in procedural areas like the cath lab. We have been struggling with the logistics of doing this: there is only 1 nurse present & available and the physician is focused on the case. Yet we recognize it is important for high risk drugs and that there are likely errors occurring that are unrecognized. We also don't want to be setting up dual standards in our hospitals.

Any ideas/suggestions??