Belarus in flux as Moscow weighs options

Significance The sheer numbers probably explain why riot police did not follow orders to clear the streets. President Alexander Lukashenka has appealed to Russia for help. Prosecutors have opened a criminal case against the Coordinating Council, formed by Lukashenka's electoral challenger, Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, to assist a transfer of power. Impacts Poland and the Baltic States will lead the way in pressing for a more proactive EU position. China has joined Russia in hailing Lukashenka's win not just because of political preference but because Belarus is an important partner. Central Asian states with equally dubious election practices are supportive of Lukashenka; more surprisingly, so is Armenia.

P25 Incidents involving paediatric parenteral nutrition

AimParenteral nutrition (PN) is one of the medications most frequently reported to be involved in medication errors in hospital.1 PN is a class of high alert medications listed by The Institute for Safe Medication Practices.2 Medication errors involving PN may have potentially serious consequences especially in infants.3 The purpose of this study was to determine the type of incidents reported, who reported it, severity of incidents and the part of the process involved in the error with the aim of ensuring quality and safety in PN processes.MethodThe incidents involving PN reported on the Ulysses system in a specialist children’s hospital were surveyed between April 2018 and March 2019. Incidents were assigned to different error-type categories. We focused on the whole process of prescribing, transcription, preparation, and administration of PN. Severity classification was based on the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) index.4ResultsThere were 34 incidents involving PN ranging from 1 to 8 per month. Job titles who reported these incidents were nurses (16 incidents), pharmacists (14 incidents), dieticians (2 incidents) and unknown (2 incidents). The most common types of incidents were omitted medicine/dose (7 incidents), labelling error (6 incidents), wrong quantity supplied (4 incidents) and wrong/unclear dose (4 incidents). The processes during which the incident had occurred were administration/supply of a medicine (14 incidents), preparation of medicines/dispensing in a pharmacy (13 incidents) and prescribing (7 incidents). The majority of incidents (82.4%, 28/34) were assigned category C (no harmful consequences), while 14.7% (5/34) and 2.9% (1/34) were assigned to category B (an error occurred but the error did not reach the patient) and category D (an error occurred that reached the patient and required monitoring to confirm that it resulted in no harm to the patient and/or required intervention to preclude harm) respectively. The following actions have been taken to try to prevent error with PN: training, providing information, introduction of new labels, changes to the profiles on infusion pumps, reinforcing independent checking and the increased use of standard PN solutions.ConclusionNurses and pharmacists are the main reporters of incidents of PN. Omitted medicine/dose is the most common incident reported. The majority of errors involved administration of PN. The majority of all incidents did not cause harm to patients.ReferencesRinke ML, Bundy DG, Velasquez CA, et al. Interventions to reduce pediatric medication errors: a systematic review[J]. Pediatrics, 2014, 134(2):338–60.Institute for Safe Medication Practices. ISMP List of High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings. Horsham, PA. Available from: http://www.ismp.org/Tools/institutionalhighAlert.asp (accessed January 15, 2017)NHS/PSA/W/2017/005,Risk of severe harm and death from infusing total parenteral nutrition too rapidly in babies. Available from: https://improvement.nhs.uk/news-alerts/infusing-total-parenteral-nutrition-too-rapidly-in-babies/National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. NCC MERP Index for Categorizing Medication Errors. Available from http://www.nccmerp.org/sites/default/files/indexColor2001-06-12.pdf (accessed March 10, 2017)

Упоминание соотечественников в Основном Законе России было бы большим шагом вперёд (интервью)

Аннотация. Интервью было дано председателем Всемирного координационного совета российских соотечественников, проживающих за рубежом (ВКСРС), Михаилом Дроздовым (г. Шанхай) пресс-центру ВКСРС в феврале 2020 г., во время обсуждения поправок в Конституцию РФ, незадолго до Всероссийского голосования за поправки в Конституцию. Одна из поправок коснулась и соотечественников, проживающих за рубежом. М. Дроздов ответил на вопросы: для чего был создан ВКСРС, какие функции выполняет, как строится его работа; насколько необходимо включить термин «соотечественник» в текст Конституции РФ и др. Он предлагает посвятить всемирную конференцию соотечественников, намеченную на осень 2020 г., деловой повестке – выстраиванию бизнес-мостов между соотечественниками, Россией и российскими регионами, а также отмечает, что ВКСРС недавно учредил почётный знак, которым будут награждаться выдающиеся соотече-ственники, те, кто ярко проявил себя, внёс значительный вклад в движение соотечественников. Ключевые слова: Всемирный координационный совет российских соотечественников, проживающих за рубежом, поправки в Конституцию РФ, всемирная конференция соотечественников, почётный знак ВКСРС. The interview was given by the Chairman of the World Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots Living Abroad (VKSRS) Mikhail Drozdov (Shanghai) to the press center of VKSRS in February, 2020, during the discussion of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, shortly before the All-Russian voting for amendments to the Constitution, scheduled for the 1st of July, 2020. One of the amendments also affected the compatriots who live abroad. M. Drozdov answered the questions: why the VKSRS was created, what functions it performs, how its work is structured; to what extent it is necessary to include the term "compatriot" in the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, etc. He proposes to devote the world conference of compatriots, scheduled for autumn 2020, to the business agenda – building business bridges between compatriots, Rus-sia and Russian regions, and also notes that the VKSRS recently established a badge of honor, which will be awarded to outstanding compatriots, those who have shown themselves brightly, have made a significant contribution to the movement of compatriots. Keywords: the World Coordinating Council of Russian Compatriots Living Abroad, amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the World Conference of Compatriots, the honorary badge of the All-Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Coordinating Council for Youth in Science and Education Under the Russian President’s Council for Science and Education

Coordinating Council for Youth in science and education under the Russian President’s Council for Science and Education began its work in 2007. In 2011, the leadership of the country was given the task of creating youth innovation center (YIC) for large companies, which would attract young scientists from universities and research institutes and created them certain conditions for the implementation of their ideas and developments in practice. Company, which responded to the offer of the President of Russia was "IDGC Holding» (http://www.holding-mrsk.ru/) JSC IDGC Holding. As a result, half past year a number of youth innovation centers were created. Such cooperation with the Coordination Council was born and practically embodied the very constructive idea of the first National Youth Competition intensive innovative ideas and projects titled "Future Energetics". This competition was attended by over 180 participants from more than 81 regions of Russia. Now our task to invite all the leaders of the Russian economy. There already exist a preliminary agreement to hold similar competitions industrial grants to other major Russian companies. In the future, we want these competitions, but rather a system of working with young scientists, not only with universities and institutions, but also with some promising innovators and their teams have been stated in the program of innovation development of any company, not necessarily belong entirely to the state. And it's not so distant future, it may seem, but rather an imperative.