On the other hand, errors in the IVC ultrasound may lead to erroneous administration of fluid challenges in patients with high left sided cardiac pressures or conditions of non-responsiveness to volume load, sometimes inducing pulmonary congestion, worsening hemodynamic status and even delaying proper administration of vasopressors and inotropes.
Furthermore, physicians decreased the insulin dose in 14 of 33 patients in whom the cause of hypoglycemia was preventable and due to a cause other than erroneous administration of excess insulin.
In three examinations an erroneous administration of a smaller volume of contrast material caused a weak opacification of the pulmonary arteries, and in one examination overall opacification was too weak (220 245 HU) for coronary artery assessment.
Programs that educate women and families for self-administration of misoprostol appear to be safe, with an extremely low rate of erroneous early administration.
9 These results were used in the Monte Carlo analysis to develop predictions of erroneous insulin administration associated with the use of an automatic glucose meter, incorrectly coded manual glucose meter, and correctly coded manual glucose meter.
In a patient with a recent history of SAH, the differential diagnosis of hyponatremia comprises erroneous fluid administration, diuretic abuse, acute ACHT deficiency, SIAD, C/RSWS or a combination of these causes [ 5].
The remaining five patients were ineligible for the following reasons: existing metastasis, history of malignant melanoma, previous chemotherapy or radiotherapy, tumour activity with uncertain breast cancer histology, and erroneous chemotherapy administration.
The safety population, used in the analysis of all safety variables, included all those patients who received at least one dose of study medication, including those who may have received it in error (this was identical to modified ITT population except for allowing for erroneous drug administration).
Also, all the teams listed other causes of high-risk failures, relating to defect in checking dose and mode of administration drug, erroneous prescription of therapy on the order form and misinterpretation by the nurse, possibly due to the lack of a computer-based technology.
Correction: December 21 , 2002 Saturday An article yesterday about regulatory changes under consideration by the Bush administration included an erroneous reference from the Office of Management and Budget to the position of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Assocation on letting consumers keep their cellphone numbers when they change providers.
These include computerized delays in timely administration of medications, erroneous orders for drugs created by the software, hurdles in nurses' ability to contact physicians and properly monitor patients, and other treatment delays.
