Search results for "Medical Device Design"

This Web site provides information about tubing misconnections and how to prevent them.

This document provides background on hospital bed injuries, identifies potentially dangerous design flaws, and offers assessment tools to reduce entrapment incidents.

Insufficient sterilization of duodenoscopes and other medical equipment has been linked to health care–associated infection outbreaks. This report summarizes findings from a government investigation into existing methods for monitoring and reporting device problems and provides recommendations for Congress, hospitals, and the Food and Drug Administration to augment identification and prevention of safety issues associated with medical devices.

Poor injection practices contribute to health care–associated infections. This Web site provides resources related to a global campaign to enhance the safe use of injections through training, communication, policy development, and syringe design.

Design limitations and production pressure may contribute to insufficient sterilization of complicated medical devices between uses. This announcement raises awareness of risks associated with inadequate cleaning of duodenoscopes that surfaced after a cluster of nosocomial infections at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Mistakes due to small-bore Luer connector similarities can contribute to patient harm. This guidance provides ways for manufacturers, policy makers, and product designers to prevent misconnections, including recommendations regarding improvements for labeling, user testing, and risk assessment.

Clinical alarms have been described as a serious patient safety issue. This article relates how one hospital implemented a series of actions reduce nuisance alarms in a cardiac unit and reports a substantial decrease in audible alerts with no subsequent adverse effects. Interventions included expanding limits for triggering heart rate alarms and collaboration between two nurses to design customized alarm parameters for individual patients.

This notice analyzes findings from a government initiative on CT scan injuries and provides recommendations to enhance safety and prevent such incidents.

This Web site supports the purpose and mandate of the Patient Safety Support Service are (1) to raise patient safety awareness among management and front-line staff, (2) to foster development of local expertise in patient safety, (3) to promote effective strategies to enhance patient safety, (4) to provide leadership and resources to hospitals in their efforts to impact system change, and (5) to provide both focused and practical assistance.

This video story alerts providers to a possible problem with an asthma inhaler, which could indicate remaining doses incorrectly if the user forcefully twists the cap.

This news release announces a seizure of infusion pumps that have a "key bounce" defect that could result in over-infusion of medication.

This announcement alerts patients and practitioners to a problem with glucose meters made by Abbott Diabetes Care. The meters have a measurement setting that, if inadvertently switched, could cause an inaccurate reading.