Fact Based List:
ECRI: Top 10 List of Health Technology Hazards for 2016
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/12/2015 - 12:54
- Flexible endoscopes: Inadequate cleaning before disinfection can spread germs
- Alarms: Missed alarms can have fatal consequences
- Monitoring postoperative patients for opioid-induced respiratory depression: Failure to do so effectively can lead to brain injury or death
- Monitoring patients in telemetry setting: Inadequate surveillance can put patients at risk
- Operating room technology: Insufficient clinician training puts patients at risk
- Healthcare IT configurations and facility workflow: Errors can arise when they don't support each other
- Syringes: Unsafe injection practices can lead to possible patient exposure to pathogens
- Gamma cameras: Mechanical failures can lead to injury or death
- Intensive care ventilators: Failure to operate them properly can cause ventilator-induced lung injuries
- USB ports: Misuse can cause medical device malfunction
Source: ECRI Institute
Source URL: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/dirty-endoscope...
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