Since When is it a Crime to be Human?

[DavidS]

I saw this link on Locumvoice http://www.locumvoice.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3146 .

It describes an administration error made by a nurse in the USA and what happened after.

Since When Is It A Crime To Be Human?

As a side issue, this is part of the artilce-

...an available bedside bar-coding system, some of the most safety-minded hospitals across the nation with bar-coding systems...

So they exist, do they? Why aren't they over here?

[Pharmanaut]

I saw this link on Locumvoice LocumVoice • View topic - Since when is it a crime to be human? - Medication Error .

It describes an administration error made by a nurse in the USA and what happened after.

Since When Is It A Crime To Be Human?

As a side issue, this is part of the artilce-


So they exist, do they? Why aren't they over here?

My feeling about barcoding is that it will be used more and more to monitor efficiency - to turn patient interaction more and more into a treatment-event that occurs on a treatment-unit. Ie patient care on a patient.

[DavidS]

My feeling about barcoding is that it will be used more and more to monitor efficiency - to turn patient interaction more and more into a treatment-event that occurs on a treatment-unit. Ie patient care on a patient.

Conspiracy theorists believe that people will eventually be chipped and barcoded by authoritarian regimes. They say that will be the beginning of the end.

[Pharmanaut]

Conspiracy theorists believe that people will eventually be chipped and barcoded by authoritarian regimes. They say that will be the beginning of the end.

We are already in the beginning of the end, don't you know the Mayan calendar runs out in 2012 and we are all doomed. Doomed I tell you.

[johnep]

Oh go on. We have had several forecasts of doom. Some have even committed mass suicide. The rest of us just get on with it. I will know when the end of the world is nigh by seeing the sun swell as a red giant or see,hear,feel a massive meteorite strike.
johnep

[bleepholder]

"So they exist, do they? Why aren't they over here?"

they do but i guess we don't have them over in UK yet because of cost. i think the idea is to have it as part of electronic prescribing...in the nhs its a goal we are all working towards but sadly it comes down to money and whether trusts can afford it. i have seen electronic prescribing in place but have yet to see a bar code type system being used. from what i ahve heard it does sound very fancy but still room for error. will the nurse pick up the right syringe before scanning it into the machine and attaching it to the patient???

[johnep]

Industry was forced to use bar codes when Boots said would not purchase a product unless it was bar coded.
Understand not all that difficult to do when label is produced by computer.
johnep

[andrew paxton]

I don't wish to praise Lloyds, but when their Compass system was introduced, their EPS bit confirmed what was supplied by us scanning the pack that we had dispensed (or usually a spare pack as the one we had dispensed had already gone to the patient). I think Analyst does the same, though not as convolutedly

[LeftArm]

(or usually a spare pack as the one we had dispensed had already gone to the patient).

So the actual benefit of scanning the product so you know exactly what the patient had is lost straight away. If the drugs are miss picked and sent to the patient the system will miss the error.