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What to Do When There Is an Overdose of Insulin

JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care by American Medical Association

Dec 26, 201732:07Science & Medicine

It is very easy to confuse drug concentrations and vials containing different amounts of drugs in the hospital setting. It is not uncommon to have dosing errors occur. In this podcast, we discuss how to manage an overdos...

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What to Do When There Is an Overdose of Insulin is an episode from JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care by American Medical Association. It is very easy to confuse drug...

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Published Dec 26, 2017, 32:07 long, audio available.

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It is very easy to confuse drug concentrations and vials containing different amounts of drugs in the hospital setting. It is not uncommon to have dosing errors occur. In this podcast, we discuss how to manage an overdose of insulin and also how to implement preventive measures in the hospital environment to minimize the risk of drug dosing errors. Interviewees include Cynthia Barnard, PhD, MBA, MSJS, from Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, Lara K. Ellinger, PharmD, BCPS, from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Keith Hemmert, MD, from Northwestern Memorial HealthCare. Read the article: Insulin Dosing Error in a Patient With Severe Hyperkalemia

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What to Do When There Is an Overdose of Insulin is an episode from JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care by American Medical Association.

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What to Do When There Is an Overdose of Insulin is from JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care by American Medical Association.

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Published Dec 26, 2017 and 32:07 long