Hospital shared sprayer – Svenska Dagbladet

the Nurse realised her mistake after being given a sedated patient, a syringe and only afterwards noticed that it was already in use.

the Incident occurred in april 2016 after a patient had surgery. When the new patient came into thought anestesisköterskan that it was cleaned after the old the patient, and new drugs proposed, something that was not the case.

In a notification to the IVO writes the patient: “Operationsteamet have used an already used syringe from the patient before me. Stuff like that must not happen!”.

During the investigation, it was found also that the hospital has not had any written procedures for handling of medicinal products in the operation, writes VLT.

the Hospital will now introduce training in safe handling of medicines and review their procedures.