Optimizing Patient Safety: Intravenous Smart Pump Usability in Acute and Critical Care.
Large-volume intravenous (IV) smart pumps are used in acute and critical care to deliver IV fluids and medications with safety-enhancing features such as dose error reduction systems. Although these technologies offer improvements over manual administration, IV smart pumps are associated with high r...
| Publicado en: | AACN Advanced Critical Care Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 230 - 240 |
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American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
Fall2025
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