Medication Errors among Physician-Assistants Anaesthesia

Table 2

Nature of medication errors.

	Medication error, (%)
	Wrong drug	Wrong dose	Wrong dilution	Wrong route	Total (%)
Outcome
No harm	64	13	6	6	89 (84.8)
Minor harm	6	3	Nil	Nil	9 (8.6)
Moderate harm	3	Nil	Nil	Nil	3 (2.9)
Severe harm	Nil	1	Nil	Nil	1 ()
Death	3	Nil	Nil	Nil	3 (2.86)
Total	76 (72.4)	17 (16.2)	6 (5.7)	6 (5.7)	105 (100)
Period of occurrence
Preinduction	13	1	1	4	19 (18.1)
At induction	15	5	2	Nil	22 (20.9)
Intraoperation	43	10	3	1	57 (54.3)
Postoperation	4	2	Nil	1	7 (6.7)
Total (%)	75 (71.4)	18 (17.1)	6 (5.7)	6 (5.7)	105 (100)

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