| Subject: | StayAlert Revises PCA Policy |
| Category: | Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
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| Published: | Tue, 4 Jan 2005 - 10:00 am |
| The StayAlert Administrator published a notice regarding the JCAHO's Sentinel Event Alert related to use of Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) by "proxy". Included with that notice was a general policy outlining use of Patient Controlled Analgesia. A sentence correction has been made to that policy to revise the statement calling for the presence of Narcan at the bedside for patients utilizing PCA. While this practice may seem necessary in theory, all medications pursuant to both CMS... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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