New National guidelines for the labeling of Perioperative Medicines and Fluids have now been released.

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There have been new recommendations for the labelling of Medicines, Fluids and Lines that were introduced in 2010. Perioperative nurses need to be aware of these new recommendations and the implications of these to our practise.

National Recommendations for User-applied Labelling of Injectable Medicines, Fluids and Lines Incorporating recommendations for labelling of (1) injectable medicines and fluids (bags,bottles and syringes) and (2) conduits (administration lines, invasive monitoring lines, catheters and burettes) where these labels are applied by the user at the point of patient delivery to identify medicines which can no longer be identified by their original packaging.

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