Smart pumps in practice: survey results reveal widespread use, but optimization is challenging. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Smart pumps in practice: survey results reveal widespread use, but optimization is challenging. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Newspaper/Magazine Article
 
• Published April 2018

Smart pumps in practice: survey results reveal widespread use, but optimization is challenging.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. April 5, 2018;23:1-5.

Smart pumps are considered an important tool to improve medication safety in the hospital environment. This newsletter article summarizes the results of two national surveys on smart infusion pump use to highlight current concerns and challenges to generating improvements. Irrelevant alarms and out-of-date drug libraries were among the problems identified by survey participants.

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