ISMP Teleconference - Pediatric Medication Safety: High-Leverage Strategies for a High-Risk Patient Population May 18, 2009

May 6, 2009 by admin

ISMP coined the term “high-alert medication” over ten years ago as a way to help focus safety strategies around those medications most likely to cause harm. This teleconference will focus on medication safety strategies around a “high-alert” patient population most likely to have harm. Pediatric patients have a higher risk for error and need specific consideration in our medication systems. An emphasis will be placed on high-leverage concepts. Topics will include patient-specific doses and where to initiate efforts, a new pediatric barcode adaptation, pediatric compounding, alert fatigue, formulary issues, standardized doses, resuscitation cards, and IV room automation.

OBJECTIVES
Following completion of this teleconference, participants should be able to:

Identify reasons why pediatric patients are at high risk for medication errors
Describe how patient-specific dosing can reduce the most common harm associated with pediatric patients
List the medications that have the most risk for the pediatric population
Discuss bar-coding challenges and adaptation in pediatrics.
Identify strategies to decrease the risk related to pediatric medication use

MODERATOR
Stuart Levine, PharmD, Informatics Specialist, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA

SPEAKERS
Jared Cash, BS, PharmD, Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator, Primary Children’s Medical Center, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT

For more information, go to http://ismp.org/teleconferences/default.asp?teleconferenceID=57

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