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Medication
We publish case reports as an aid to MPS members, to alert them to pitfalls that have caught their colleagues unawares. We believe that these are an invaluable risk-management tool and, as such, they should be rooted in fact - i.e. based on actual events.
Here are some cases involving problems with medication, published in recent editions of Casebook.
- Lithium levels not monitored - September 2006
- Mistaken drug abuse diagnosis - May 2006
- Monitoring a dangerous mix - November 2005
- Inadvertent intra-arterial injection - May 2005
- Looking out for complications - May 2005
- Widespread confusion - May 2005
- Phenytoin toxicity - February 2005
- Sciatic neurpoathy due to i-m injection - February 2005
- Dosing error - August 2004
- Inspect before you inject - August 2003
- Missed test result - September 2008
- Problems with eardrops - September 2008
