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Potassium may no longer be stocked on patient care units, but serious threats still exist!
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. October 4, 2007;12:1-2.

This article describes how errors involving potassium chloride still occur and discusses further strategies to prevent tragic mistakes with this medication.
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