TY - JOUR
T1 - Technical response to the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacist Group's proposal to standardise intravenous infusion concentrations for children in the UK
AU - Bulmer, Joseph
AU - Drinnan, Michael
AU - Smith, Jon
PY - 2023/2/23
Y1 - 2023/2/23
N2 - Recently, the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacist Group (NPPG), with support from the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (RCPCH), proposed a national standard for intravenous infusion concentrations in children. The RCPCH recommendations are an important move towards ‘safer and more efficient’ standardisation, for example, by mitigating avoidable misdosing incidents, and are overwhelmingly a welcome development. Nevertheless, we note that if infusion concentration is standardised, then the infusion flow rate is determined. Here, we report a consequential risk not acknowledged in the proposal.
AB - Recently, the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacist Group (NPPG), with support from the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (RCPCH), proposed a national standard for intravenous infusion concentrations in children. The RCPCH recommendations are an important move towards ‘safer and more efficient’ standardisation, for example, by mitigating avoidable misdosing incidents, and are overwhelmingly a welcome development. Nevertheless, we note that if infusion concentration is standardised, then the infusion flow rate is determined. Here, we report a consequential risk not acknowledged in the proposal.
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U2 - 10.1136/archdischild-2022-325053
DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2022-325053
M3 - Letter
C2 - 36822837
AN - SCOPUS:85150665267
SN - 0003-9888
VL - 108
SP - 314
EP - 315
JO - Archives of Disease in Childhood
JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood
IS - 4
ER -