Enhancing patient safety with intelligent intravenous infusion devices: experience in a specialty cardiac hospital.

Jacqueline L Wood; Jeremy S Burnette

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Enhancing patient safety with intelligent intravenous infusion devices: experience in a specialty cardiac hospital.

November 9, 2011

Wood JL, Burnette JS. Heart & Lung. 2011;41(2).

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Implementation of smart intravenous pumps was associated with fewer adverse events and considerable cost savings at an academic medical center.

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