Drug calculation ability of qualified paramedics: a pilot study.

Boyle MJ, Eastwood K. World J Emerg Med. 2018;9:41-45.

Safe medication administration in the prehospital setting requires paramedics to rapidly and accurately calculate medication doses. Researchers tested 20 experienced Australian paramedics in a classroom and found that most made errors in dosing or arithmetic. In other studies, human factors engineering approaches showed promise in reducing reliance on mental math.

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