Safety status system for operating room devices
| Autor: | Annetje C. P. Guédon, Linda S. G. L. Wauben, Maarten van der Elst, Marlies Overvelde, Jenny Dankelman, John J. van den Dobbelsteen, Joleen H. Blok |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Operating Rooms
Safety Management Computer science Biomedical Engineering Biophysics Pilot Projects Health Informatics Bioengineering Computer security computer.software_genre Safety status Teaching hospital Interviews as Topic Biomaterials Facility management Periodic maintenance Medical Staff Hospital medicine Humans Hospitals Teaching Equipment and Supplies Hospital Qualitative Research Netherlands business.industry Usability medicine.disease Checklist Patient Safety Medical emergency Maintenance and Engineering Hospital business computer Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Technology and Health Care. 22:795-803 |
| ISSN: | 1878-7401 0928-7329 |
| DOI: | 10.3233/thc-140854 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Since the increase of the number of technological aids in the operating room OR, equipment-related incidents have come to be a common kind of adverse events. This underlines the importance of adequate equipment management to improve the safety in the OR. OBJECTIVE: A system was developed to monitor the safety status periodic maintenance and registered malfunctions of OR devices and to facilitate the notification of malfunctions. The objective was to assess whether the system is suitable for use in an busy OR setting and to analyse its effect on the notification of malfunctions. METHODS: The system checks automatically the safety status of OR devices through constant communication with the technical facility management system, informs the OR staff real-time and facilitates notification of malfunctions. The system was tested for a pilot period of six months in four ORs of a Dutch teaching hospital and 17 users were interviewed on the usability of the system. RESULTS: The users provided positive feedback on the usability. For 86.6% of total time, the localisation of OR devices was accurate. 62 malfunctions of OR devices were reported, an increase of 12 notifications compared to the previous year.CONCLUSIONS: The safety status system was suitable for an OR complex, both from a usability and technical point of view, and an increase of reported malfunctions was observed. The system eases monitoring the safety status of equipment and is a promising tool to improve the safety related to OR devices. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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