Patient left the infusion area twice with eis pump containing continuous infusion 5fu to run over 46 hours at home.The patient's daughter disconnects patient at home and claims that both infusions run in approximately 11 hours too fast.The patient experienced mental confusion, severe nausea and diarrhea.She had had 3 previous infusions that had gone fine.Daughter is an rn and states she is positive devices emptied both incidents.The dose administered too fast.This was not reported to the clinic or physician until patient came for return visit with physician two weeks later.At that time the patient was fine and not suffering any side effects.The decision in clinic was to switch patient to a gemstar pump.Patient was discharged from infusion with infusional 5 fu on a gemstar pump to infuse over 46 hours.
|