A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...
As noted above, and in other reports in our newsletters, PCA errors can be deadly. Thus, special precautions are needed when administering narcotics to patients using this method of delivery, ...
March 16, 2004 — An investigational fentanyl patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) transdermal system was found to provide postsurgical pain control equivalent to that of a standard intravenous (IV) ...