Prevent Opioid Mix-Ups With Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Orders

October 2017

Safety concerns with patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) continue to surface.

PCA helps relieve pain by allowing a patient to press a button for delivery of "on-demand" IV opioid doses. It has a lower risk of side effects than opioid continuous infusions.

But PCA isn't without risk. In fact, PCA errors can be very harmful...even fatal.

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Prevent Opioid Mix-Ups With Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Orders

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