Patient Safety Alert: Urgent Alert Regarding Medication Vial Coring and Fragmentation Risks
Saturday, April 05, 2025 11:39 AM
APSF and ECRI/ISMP have received several reports recently of medication vial coring incidents. Coring occurs when a piece of the flexible stopper on a medication vial detaches during needle insertion which may lead to contaminating the medication and the risk of injecting stopper fragments into patients. Read more.