How are pediatric medication mistakes prevented?

While most pediatric medication mistakes do not result in serious problems, researchers have found that 2.5 percent of them cause significant harm or death. In 2007, the accidental blood thinner overdose of actor Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins brought public attention to the issue of pediatric medication errors. In that case, the vials looked the same for infants and adults, but the adult concentration was much higher.

Those bottles have since been changed to make it clear which is which. In 2008, the Joint Commission issued an alert aimed at trying to prevent these kinds of mistakes, emphasizing that potentially harmful medication errors occur three times more often in children than in adults. The Joint Commission’s alert calls for .

. . Hospitals to weigh children in kilograms when admitted, because weight in kilograms is used to calculate proper doses for childrendoctors to write out how they arrive at a dosage so the math can be double-checked by a pharmacist, nurse, or both hospitals to clearly mark medications that have been repackaged from adult doses to kid versionshospitals to keep adult meds away from pediatric units and/or to store child and adult medicines in separate areas Some hospitals are starting to color-code medications by weight ranges for kids, so that if your child weighs between twenty and twenty-four kilograms, for example, his meds might be blue.

If doctors needed a lower or higher dose, they would have to make a special request to change that tandardized dose. From The Smart Parent's Guide: Getting Your Kids Through Checkups, Illnesses, and Accidents by Jennifer Trachtenberg.

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