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Infusion devices: characteristics, limitations and risk management

26 March 2003

Nursing Standard

CPD

Safe administration of IV therapy requires skilled use of the equipment, knowledge of the associated risks and the prevention of adverse consequences. The authors...

Learning from adverse incidents involving medical devices

02 April 2003

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

While an adverse event involving a medical device is often ascribed to either user error or device failure, the causes are typically multifactorial. A number of...

Best practice in the measurement of body temperature

23 June 2010

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In the last two decades, there has been a significant change in the technology of clinical thermometry. Mercury-in-glass thermometers have been replaced with...

Syringe pumps and start-up time: ensuring safe practice

10 January 2001

Nursing Standard

Arts & Science

The start-up time is the delay between starting an infusion pump and the delivery of fluid at the set flow rate. Mechanical slack in syringe pumps can lead to...

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