Medication Errors?

So here's an example.. What if a medication for nebulization Salbutamol(Ventolin) was given intravenously instead of nebulization. what happens to the patient? Last edit by Monica08 on Dec 6, '11
What do you think?

IV and what is TT?

Hmmm..

IVV - intravenous through tube.. Its given intravenously..

Is this a homework assignment? I'm confused.

Quote from Monica08IVV - intravenous through tube.. Its given intravenously..

Okay. IV is through a tube so sorry, I've never seen TT before. This may sound a bit stupid, but how can you give albuterol, which is ventolin via IV? Have you seen it? How could you draw it up to even give it IV? Check out your nursing drug book.

How/why would that even be possible? As far as I know, all those neb treatments come in their own little bullet packaging...obviously for nebs and not for IV use...unless you are in a different country???

Quote from ParvulusPuellaHow/why would that even be possible? As far as I know, all those neb treatments come in their own little bullet packaging...obviously for nebs and not for IV use...unless you are in a different country???

Our Ventolin comes in a liquid in a bottle. We measure using a syringe so I could see it being given IV. We then dilute with saline, usually add atrovent and/morphine as well. I just don't see how that type of error could occur.

Well lets hope this is a hypothetical because if it was given IV, a provider should have been called STAT.

Albuterol in higher concentrations are kept in multi use vials in our hospital (stored in our pharmacy for safety), When I give a 20 mg neb of albuterol for severe hyperkalemia, I draw it from the concentrated vial in a syringe, and transfer the med to the neb.in this case, the mix of using the syringe + trying to give the 5 med combo for hyperkalemia (most IV) I suppose I could see how it could occur.