Researchers conducted an online survey from May 2010 to June 2010 in various healthcare settings that prepare and/or administer parenteral medications. The results of the study showed the majority of the 5,446 eligible respondents reported injection practices that were consistent with current recommendations.
However, a few unsafe practices were identified. Six percent of respondents “sometimes or always” used single-dose/single-use vials for more than one patient. Approximately one percent of respondents “sometimes or always” reused a syringe but changed the needle for use on a second patient. Fifteen percent of respondents reused a syringe to enter a multidose vial, and then 6.5 percent saved that vial for use on another patient.
Read the American Journal of Infection Control‘s study on injection practices.
Read other coverage about infection control:
– AORN Show Support for Organizations’ Stance on Flash Sterilization
