The Annals of pharmacotherapy
-
Multicenter Study
Inappropriate medication administration practices in Canadian adult ICUs: a multicenter, cross-sectional observational study.
Critically ill patients often receive multiple medications via continuous intravenous infusion. Coadministration of multiple medications through the same port of a venous access device often is necessary but requires an assessment of compatibility. ⋯ Inappropriate Y-site combinations of medications continuously infused in Canadian ICUs are common. Management of medication infusions could, however, have been optimized in most of these situations.