Patient Safety Alert 2: The Risks of Programmable Medical Equipment (PDF)
The AMC PSO has identified a broad array of programmable medical devices and made several recommendations to decrease risk due to user fallibility, equipment complexity, and highly variable processes.
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
A multidisciplinary group examined this event and made several recommendations for machine safety:
- Modify machine checks to include evaluation of default settings with each circuit change to ensure that settings are checked before every new patient case
Library of All AMC PSO Patient Safety Alerts
For even more patient safety alert material, please review our series of AMC PSO Patient Safety Alerts to understand the variety of topics covered by our members. AMC PSO makes patient safety learnings available to the public as part of CRICO’s ongoing commitment towards improving patient safety across the continuum of care.