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Medical Error And Harm
Patients in the intensive care unit generally have complex healthcare issues with underlying comorbidities and organ dysfunction. They are thus more vulnerable to medical errors. Often, the treatment of these patients requires the use of interventions that could potentially result in adverse events, errors and harm. While critical care guidelines...
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Coping With the Psychological Impact of Medical Errors: Some Practical Strategies
Significant efforts have been made to make hospitals and ICUs as safe as possible. As healthcare workers (HCWs) try to get through this pandemic, the focus of this article is to explore practical steps to help these workers better cope with the psychological effects of being involved in an error event. Introduction:...
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Patient Safety in the ICU: Exploring Trends in Adverse Events in ICUs
Adverse events (AEs) are common among critically ill patients. Evidence about the nature, preventability and predictability of AEs can be used to reinvest in efforts to reduce them and improve patient safety in ICUs. Case Mr. A, a previously well 70-year-old male was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with respiratory...
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Information Transfer as a Strategy to Improve Safety in ICU
The transmission of information (TOI) in extremely variable environments, such as the ICU, is crucial. The content and how it is transmitted can be decisive in the safe care of the critical patient. Introduction In an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), we attend people with a wide range of pathologies. All the information obtained...
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Doing More Can Be Worse: Ten Common Errors in the ICU
Some of the most common interventions in the ICU can be associated with poor results. We present ten situations in which doing less is better for the critically ill patient. Introduction For decades, the focus of patient management in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has been to perform a large number of interventions in critically ill patients,...
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Processes to Reduce Medication Errors in the ICU
Medication errors are common in the complex environment of the ICU. This article provides an overview of the prevalence and impact of these errors and the processes that could help reduce their incidence. Introduction Medicines are the most widely used intervention in the critical care environment, and errors in medication use are a well-established...
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Monitoring Postoperative Hypotension – A Futuristic Look at Patient Safety
Post-operative hypotension is a frequent occurrence that is unrecognised with intermittent spot checks based monitoring in most hospital ward patients. Myocardial injury is strongly associated with hypotension in this period of recovery from surgery. Upgrading ward monitoring to portable, smart, and continuous systems with effective alarm management...
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Estimated Plasma Volume Status
An overview of estimated plasma volume (ePVS), recent evidence supporting the association of ePVS with clinical congestion and whether it can help improve outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF). Plasma volume (PV) is the level of intravascular fluid minus the red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. PV in heart failure (HF) patients...
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Upcoming events/courses/congresses
MARCH 1 ICU Management & Practice DigiConf Medical Error, Harm and Patient Safety Virtual Event https://iii.hm/1eh6 22-25 41st ISICEM Brussels, Belgium https://iii.hm/1eei 24-25 8th International Conference on Surgery & Anesthesia London, UK https://iii.hm/1eej APRIL 18-21...
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Learning from Medical Errors
Healthcare professionals/trainees are often unprepared to experience and learn from errors due to structural characteristics of our systems and training programmes. Restructuration is needed to allow learning from errors. Introduction Medical error is considered one of the ten leading causes of death and disability in the world and as many...
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