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Pump design flaws demonstrate need for practitioner involvement in FMEA.
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. May 4, 2006:11:1-2,4.

This alert shares another error involving an infusion pump already identified in a U.S. Food and Drug Administration alert as having design flaws. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices is encouraging manufacturers and users to conduct a failure mode and effect analysis on pumps prior to use.
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