Phenylephrine-succinylcholine look-alike syringes

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Mike Cohen
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Phenylephrine-succinylcholine look-alike syringes

During my presentation last Thursday for the member briefing I mentioned an issue with look-alike succinylcholine and phenylephrine syringes from Nephron, which has a 503b outsourcing operation. There had been an incident reported to ISMP where anesthesia personnel gave a hypotensive patient succinylcholine instead of the phenylephrine. The syringes can be seen in the member briefing slides posted on this website. We are happy to note that Nephron has revised the labels and these are attached. Mike

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