By Ian C. Wong, Catherine Tuleu, Ian Costello, Vincent Yeung, Paul Long
This quantity within the ULLA sequence is an introductory textbook on paediatric drug dealing with. Written for brand new pharmaceutical scientists, this booklet goals to provide a history of paediatric pharmacy. Its scope is to offer a accomplished creation to kid's drugs when it comes to dosing in perform and paediatric pharmaceutics, physiological and drug disposition variations, medical pharmacology and pharmacogenomics. Paediatric rules all over the world in addition to drug licensing and medical trials, compliance, security and pharmacovigilance matters may also be built
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Ghaleb and Wong (2006) reviewed various definitions and, to their surprise, found that many research reports did not include any definition. Variations in the definitions limit comparison between studies, as do the methods used. In 2005 Ghaleb and colleagues used the Delphi technique to define prescribing errors in children: ‘A clinically meaningful prescribing error occurs when, as a result of a prescribing decision or prescription writing process, there is an unintentional significant: (1) reduction in the probability of treatment being timely and effective or (2) increase in the risk of harm when compared with generally accepted practice’.
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4). Most of the cases reported resulted in fatal consequences, hence making the news headlines. , 2004). v. v. m. v. v. 4 Continued 10 year old 14 year old Incorrect drug Incorrect drug Preterm neonate 12 year old 4 day old 3-day-old preterm 1 month old 11 month old Preterm baby 5 year old Outcome Anaesthetic in dental surgery Death Nitrous oxide/oxygen. v. v. dextrose, infusion rate not controlled Death Incorrect rate Dobutamine, infusion given too rapidly Death Incorrect container Antidepressants from father’s medicine not Death put in childproof container Omitted in error Potassium chloride was omitted and not put Death in dialysis fluid Anaesthesia Anaesthetic (given general anaesthesia for Death tooth extraction) Steps taken to prevent future error Not mentioned Not mentioned Not mentioned Page 31 7 year old Description of the error involved 13:26 Type of error 16/12/06 Patient involved Not mentioned Not mentioned Not mentioned Not mentioned Not mentioned Not mentioned Not mentioned Not mentioned From Cousins et al.
