Switching from vials to prefilled syringes can cut costs and improve patient safety, as recent studies and hospital practice have shown.
At Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City, anesthesiologists have switched to prefilled syringes for some of their operating room (OR) medications with the intention of reducing the risk for errors and lowering drug expenditures. “The patient safety issue really stems from the fact that anesthesiology is probably the only medical