@article{171,
  author = {Sonia J. Pinkney and Mark Fan and Christine Koczmara and Patricia L. Trbovich},
  title = {Untangling Infusion Confusion: A Comparative Evaluation of Interventions in a Simulated Intensive Care Setting.},
  abstract = {<p><b>OBJECTIVES: </b>Assess interventions' impact on preventing IV infusion identification and disconnection mix-ups.</p><p><b>DESIGN: </b>Experimental study with repeated measures design.</p><p><b>SETTING: </b>High fidelity simulated adult ICU.</p><p><b>SUBJECTS: </b>Forty critical care nurses.</p><p><b>INTERVENTIONS: </b>Participants had to correctly identify infusions and disconnect an infusion in four different conditions: baseline (current practice); line labels/organizers; smart pump; and light-linking system.</p><p><b>MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: </b>Participants identified infusions with significantly fewer errors when using line labels/organizers (0; 0%) than in the baseline (12; 7.7%) and smart pump conditions (10; 6.4%) (p < 0.01). The light-linking system did not significantly affect identification errors (5; 3.2%) compared with the other conditions. Participants were significantly faster identifying infusions when using line labels/organizers (0:31) than in the baseline (1:20), smart pump (1:29), and light-linking (1:22) conditions (p < 0.001). When disconnecting an infusion, there was no significant difference in errors between conditions, but participants were significantly slower when using the smart pump than all other conditions (p < 0.001).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS: </b>The results suggest that line labels/organizers may increase infusion identification accuracy and efficiency.</p>},
  year = {2019},
  journal = {Crit Care Med},
  volume = {47},
  pages = {e597-e601},
  month = {07/2019},
  issn = {1530-0293},
  doi = {10.1097/CCM.0000000000003790},
  language = {eng},
}