Okay, if the computer screws up, you should be competent enough to know if the drug/dosage is lethal.
“Employees say their hospitals are relying on shocking workarounds to bypass the computers, including using handwritten, sticky notes...”
My GOD! Hopefully the bosses arrested and CONVICTED for forcing their workers to do something so ‘low tech’.
Why are Hospital information technology systems connected to the internet in the first place? We are often told how important patient privacy is , privacy of medical records and yet these sorts of things are available on the internet.
Am I missing something? How can hackers break into a hospital patient system Unless somehow that system is connected to the internet?
These meds are given Mg/Kg of body weight. How do you almost overdose an infant if you can do basic math? You don’t need a computer to calculate dosages. Not to mention hopefully you would recall about what volume you give patients and go “why am I giving 2 vials to this patient? Something might be wrong here.”
Whose fingerprints were all over the attack?
Anyone dare guess?
Several area hospitals around us are Ascension.
My medical plan is Ascension. Every month, without fail, they screw up the premium billing. Autopay hasn’t worked properly since …forever.
Life threatening dose of narcotic to a baby?
Some nurse working lessor NICU is giving narcotics to a baby? And doesn’t know doses?
If a nurse can’t work without computers that’s the problem.
We always had communications-out exercises in the military.
We managed to not kill people long before computers. We learned doses. Memorized them. Took 5 credit pharmacology courses. Manad to not depend on someone or something doing our thinking
a woman suffering from low blood sugar and confusion went into cardiac arrest and died after hospital workers said they waited four hours for lab results they needed in order to proceed with her care
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If they could not figure out a low blood sugar without the lab...ie symptoms and or the on site blood sugar monitor there is more wrong with Dr.s and nurses knowledge todaythan I understand.
Cyber attack?
Maybe AI run amuck. AI apps always warn of their propensity to make errors.
The Technology Trap in action. Humans are foregoing getting necessary life skills in the belief that Technology will save them.
P