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Hospitals have a critical need to reduce errors and treatment time in emergency pediatric care. Dosing calculations for children are notoriously error-prone.
Mistakes Happen – Far Too Often
Adverse drug events happen to children three times as often as to adults.1 When under pressure, nurses commit errors 25% of the time when making IV drug calculations for children.2 Errors are only caught 20% of the time.3
Even the most sophisticated emergency care providers can feel uncomfortable when treating life-threatening emergencies in children. They know what to do, but they are afraid of making mistakes because of size and age-related variables.
The result? Emergency healthcare providers tend to not act or delay needed treatment in order to avoid doing harm.
Common Sense Technology
Most computerized bedside systems are too complex to meet the needs of clinicians trying to solve real clinical problems in real time. They hinder treatment rather than facilitate it.
Emergency physicians James Broselow and Robert Luten, along with pediatric pharmacist Angela Gilley, PharmD, have teamed up to provide hospitals and practitioners with an elegant solution: the Artemis pediatric acute care and Artemis Neonatal systems.
At the right, Artemis customer Dr. Carlo Oller, Regional Medical Director of Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee, Florida, describes how the revolutionary yet common sense technology works.
Simple Solutions for Complex Problems
Artemis simplifies acute therapeutic interventions in children. The software gives "information in amps," allowing rapid, accurate intervention across a broad spectrum of pediatric emergencies. The information is presented in a simple color-coded table format for quick identification and accuracy. The system answers the questions of all members of the healthcare team at the bedside and the pharmacy, in a format that they can all access immediately.
Learn about our full line of Artemis products or contact us to request an evaluation version of the Artemis software.
1. Consensus meeting of National Experts, EMS-C 2009
2. University of Florida Study, 2005
3. Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Study, BMJ 2004
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