Editorial

Concentrating on the right measures

Richard von Rahden, Zane Farina, Michael James
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia | Vol 22, No 1 | a828 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/22201181.2016.1141566 | © 2016 Zane Farina, Richard Von Rahden, Michael James | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 03 November 2025 | Published: 17 March 2016

About the author(s)

Richard von Rahden, Discipline of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; and, Department of Anaesthesia, Grey’s Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Zane Farina, Discipline of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; and, Department of Anaesthesia, Grey’s Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Michael James, Department of Anaesthesia, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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Abstract

The continued use of “percent” in the labelling and description of many drugs used in the field of anaesthesia is an ongoing source of errors. As part of the modern drive towards safety in medicine it is proposed that the standard of labelling according to mass of the drug per millilitre be universally adopted.

Keywords

drug dosage calculations; drug labelling; medication errors

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