While pain medicine specialist Dr. Pamela Palmer was working at the University of California-San Francisco, she noticed something peculiar was happening to patients undergoing surgery – many who survived their procedures were dying of opioid overdoses as a result of patient-controlled drug pumps.
“The nurse has to program a number of parameters into it and, of course, the doctor has to order the right parameters. There are a lot of steps that have to go right for the patient to have good care,” she told Drug Delivery Business News. “If the doctor orders the wrong dosages or it’s programmed in wrong by the nurse, you can, with a single decimal point error, end up with a 10-fold overdose.”
In 2005 Palmer co-founded AcelRx (NSDQ:ACRX) to develop a device to help doctors administer pain-killers to post-op patients without putting them at risk of an overdose.
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