Design of a Precision Medication Dispenser: Preventing Overdose by Increasing Accuracy and Precision of Dosage
Liquid medication overdose in pediatric patients results in over 70 000 visits to the emergency room yearly in the USA. Various studies have demonstrated that the root cause of this high incidence is due to user and device error in dose measurement. The standard measuring cup and syringe suffer from...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2018-01-01
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| Series: | IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine |
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| Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8388221/ |