Revolutionizing medication administration safety: Automated carts are here - Are anesthesiologists ready?

In this month's issue of the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, Wang and colleagues [1] present a randomized controlled trial assessing the use of an automated operating room anesthesia cart and its effect on the recording of medication errors. A search of the US National Library of Medicine database (PubMed, at http://ift.tt/1cTZOuj) for the term, "medication error" performed at the time of the writing of this editorial retrieved a total of 17,808 citations. So, why is another such article needed? In this innovative and important study, 78 anesthesiologists were trained on the use of an automated medication-dispensing cart, and the anesthetic management then was randomized to intraoperative medication administration using either the automated cart or a conventional manual cart [1].

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