National alert issued: Look-alike packaging may cause confusion between neostigmine and phenylephrine
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
A National Alert for Serious Medication Errors has been issued by ASHP and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), warning of potentially dangerous mix-ups between two relatively new presentations of older medications, neostigmine injection and phenylephrine injection.