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I'm on call tonight so I'm reading some mindless anesthesia magazine. I came across an article I'm sure most of you have seen, see title.
I had a couple questions. First, it states "Anesthesiologists" are to blame. But in the article it's graph shows that the anesthesiologists are responsible for only 4% of the errors while residents and crna's make up 87% of the errors. We all know that is because in academic centers like UM the anesthesiologists don't push the drugs. But still, the title irked me a bit.
However, that's not the what pissed me off the most. They called, giving a cephalosporin to someone with a known PCN allergy, a medication error. Since when? I do this all the time. It is well documented that this is a perfectly acceptable practice. So this entire study is crap.
It's stupid studies Like these that the sensationistic media gets a hold of and runs with to incite fear in the general public. And it's put out by our own peers.
I support the study idea but get it right and do your research. Don't publish just to get your name out there.
I had a couple questions. First, it states "Anesthesiologists" are to blame. But in the article it's graph shows that the anesthesiologists are responsible for only 4% of the errors while residents and crna's make up 87% of the errors. We all know that is because in academic centers like UM the anesthesiologists don't push the drugs. But still, the title irked me a bit.
However, that's not the what pissed me off the most. They called, giving a cephalosporin to someone with a known PCN allergy, a medication error. Since when? I do this all the time. It is well documented that this is a perfectly acceptable practice. So this entire study is crap.
It's stupid studies Like these that the sensationistic media gets a hold of and runs with to incite fear in the general public. And it's put out by our own peers.
I support the study idea but get it right and do your research. Don't publish just to get your name out there.