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Hand-Healthy Hand Scrubs - December 2013 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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OSE_1213_part2_Layout 1 12/5/13 2:55 PM Page 96 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. 9 6 O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | D E C E M B E R 2013

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