A clinical incident has occurred on ICU: a patient received 10 times the intended dose of potassium chloride intravenously due to a prescribing error....

Question

A clinical incident has occurred on ICU: a patient received 10 times the intended dose of potassium chloride intravenously due to a prescribing error. The patient developed cardiac arrest but was successfully resuscitated. According to NHS England patient safety framework, what category of patient safety incident is this?

Accepted Answer

Never Event

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No harm incident

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Near miss

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Moderate harm incident

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Severe harm incident - requiring Serious Incident investigation

uk-fficm MCQ (SBA): Never Event