ECRI: Top 10 List of Health Technology Hazards for 2016

1. Flexible endoscopes: Inadequate cleaning before disinfection can spread germs
2. Alarms: Missed alarms can have fatal consequences
3. Monitoring postoperative patients for opioid-induced respiratory depression: Failure to do so effectively can lead to brain injury or death
4. Monitoring patients in telemetry setting: Inadequate surveillance can put patients at risk
5. Operating room technology: Insufficient clinician training puts patients at risk
6. Healthcare IT configurations and facility workflow: Errors can arise when they don't support each other
7. Syringes: Unsafe injection practices can lead to possible patient exposure to pathogens
8. Gamma cameras: Mechanical failures can lead to injury or death
9. Intensive care ventilators: Failure to operate them properly can cause ventilator-induced lung injuries
10. USB ports: Misuse can cause medical device malfunction

Source: ECRI Institute
Source URL: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/dirty-endoscope...

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