Use sedating medications, such as hypnotics or sedatives. Patients in these categories may require another form of pain management or careful monitoring for respiratory effects. All PCA pumps should ...

Bryanne Patail, biomedical engineer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Patient Safety, discusses patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps and what the Veterans Health ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety gave safety recommendations for patient-controlled analgesia pumps to manage pain, according to The Sacramento Bee. PCA pumps are used for patients ...

Parents highlight dangers of PCA pumps to honor lost daughter. July 18, 2012— -- When Amanda Abbiehl's parents kissed her goodnight on July 16, 2010, they never imagined it would be for the last ...

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, ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety offers a free checklist to prevent errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps that harm patients. The PCA Safety Checklist focuses on the ...

Lancaster (Pa.) General Health integrated its Epic EHR system with its patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pump. Hospira’s LifeCare PCA 7.0 infusion system and Epic Systems powered the integration. PCA ...

Pfizer Inc PFE's Hospira unveiled the LifeCare PCA 7.0 Infusion System. According to the company, as the first patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) infusion pump to provide electronic medical record ...

Remember that video we shared a few days ago of BlackBerry security experts showing how easy it was to hack a smart infusion pump? Two things about that: We were right that it was a LifeCare PCA pump ...

Insulin pumps and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps are increasingly used by children and adolescents. Although these devices offer effective control of blood glucose level and pain, the ...