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Why did Curlin Medical set the default in PCA as milligram (mg) as opposed to milliliter (ml)?

April 26, 2017Curlin Default medical MG milligram milliliter ML PCa

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Why did Curlin Medical set the default in PCA as milligram (mg) as opposed to milliliter (ml)?

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In the multi-therapy pumps, the decision to set the default to mg was safety based, as this can prevent serious over-infusions based on erroneous ml/hr programming, when in fact the prescription is in mg/hour.