reference your MH supplies with the Malignant Hyperthermia
Association of the United States' (MHAUS) list of suggested supplies
(osmag.net/Nnd5MQ).
If you serve pediatric patients, make sure the pediatric dosage
guidelines and pediatric strength meds such as preloaded syringes
(atropine and dextrose, for example) are readily available.
A drug safety mantra
When it comes it medication safety, my philosophy has always been to
envision myself or a family member was the one lying on the operat-
ing table and to ask, "What would I want as the optimum therapies,
including drugs, used in the facility?"
OSM
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Mr. Sones (shelsones@aol.com) is a pharmacy consultant and safe medication
management officer at more than 130 ambulatory facilities in the Northeast, and
a member of Outpatient Surgery Magazine's Editorial Board.
