Phase out mm-calibrated syringe drivers, NPSA says

摘要

Millimetre-calibrated syringe drivers used in palliative care should be phased out, according to a National Patient Safety Agency Rapid Response Report published last month. Although most ambulatory syringe drivers used to deliver opioids and other palliative care medicines have rate settings in millilitres, some older types have rate settings in millimetres of syringe plunger travel. This leads to errors such as wrong rates of infusion, incorrect rate settings and dose errors, the report states.