Adapter-based Safety Injection System for Prevention of Wrong Route and Wrong Patient Medication Errorsopen access
- Authors
- Cho, YC[Cho, Yong Chan]; Lee, SH[Lee, Seung Ho]; Cho, YH[Cho, Yang Hyun]; Choy, YB[Choy, Young Bin]
- Issue Date
- Dec-2017
- Publisher
- KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Keywords
- Medication Error; Syringes; Catheters; Printing; Three-Dimensional
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE, v.32, no.12, pp.1938 - +
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
- Volume
- 32
- Number
- 12
- Start Page
- 1938
- End Page
- +
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/26223
- DOI
- 10.3346/jkms.2017.32.12.1938
- ISSN
- 1011-8934
- Abstract
- Wrong-route or -patient medication errors due to human mistakes have been considered difficult to resolve in clinical settings. In this study, we suggest a safety injection system that can help to prevent an injection when a mismatch exists between the drug and route or patient. For this, we prepared two distinct adapters with key and keyhole patterns specifically assigned to a pair of drug and route or patient. When connected to a syringe tip and its counterpart, a catheter injection-port, respectively, the adapters allowed for a seamless connection only with their matching patterns. In this study, each of the adapters possessed a specific key and keyhole pattern at one end and the other end was shaped to be a universal fit for syringe tips or catheter injection-ports in clinical use. With the scheme proposed herein, we could generate 27,000 patterns, depending on the location and shape of the key tooth in the adapters. With a rapid prototyping technique, multiple distinct pairs of adapters could be prepared in a relatively short period of time and thus, we envision that a specific adapter pair can be produced on-site after patient hospitalization, much like patient identification barcodes.
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