December 18, 2014:
SafeMedicationUse.ca Newsletter Synopsis - Medication Appearance and Markings Support Safety
Consumers need to be familiar with the identification marks and general appearance of each of their medications and any medications they administer to others. SafeMedicationUse.ca received an incident report about a mix-up that occurred in a community pharmacy between a consumer’s prescriptions for 2 medications: the antibiotic ciprofloxacin (to be used in treating a lung infection) and ranitidine (to be used on an as-needed basis for indigestion). The error resulted in the ciprofloxacin tablets being placed in the vial labelled “ranitidine” and the ranitidine tablets in the vial labelled “ciprofloxacin”.
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