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M E D I C A T I O N
S A F E T Y
1. ALL MIXED UP How much lidocaine is in this syringe? How
much Marcaine? How much Wydase? It's impossible to tell. And
whom would you ask? Whoever prepared the solution didn't bother to
mark it with his initials, nor with the date and time it was prepared.
Those are the strengths of the medications you see, not the amounts
of each. Careless preparation like this goes against just about every
set of regulatory guidelines you can imagine, and it's been the root
cause of many errors over many years.
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