New Clinician Learning Curve Tops ECRI’s Patient Safety Concerns
Challenges transitioning new clinicians from academic training to professional practice tops ECRI’s 2024 list of 10 patient safety concerns.
Challenges transitioning new clinicians from academic training to professional practice tops ECRI’s 2024 list of 10 patient safety concerns.
Getinge is recalling IABP devices due to a compromised intra-aortic balloon causing blood to enter the IABP during therapy.
An analysis of race-related patient safety reports by ECRI shows that both patients and healthcare providers are frequently on the receiving end of inappropriate comments about race.
Challenges transitioning new clinicians from academic training to professional practice tops ECRI’s 2024 list of 10 patient safety concerns.
Gadsden Regional Medical Center implemented an artificial intelligence-based maternal-fetal early warning system.
Read MoreResearchers who developed a transient pacemaker unveiled a new, smart version that integrates into a coordinated network of wearable sensors.
Read MoreECRI announces its unity with the United States’ top safety experts in calling for a total systems approach to safety, a theme that was the central focus at the recent Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Patient Safety Congress.
Read MoreScientists are developing a surface treatment to stop microbes from adhering to medical devices to prevent infections in hospital settings.
Read MoreTwo congressmen introduced a bill to improve the FDA process of reporting an adverse health event, or safety signal, due to a medical device.
Read MoreEarlier this week, the U.S. FDA revealed that the Philips’ Respironics V60 ventilator received a Class 1 recall due to an electrical circuit fault that can use the device to malfunction. Now, Philips is investigating one patient death and four reports of patient harm possibly related to the recall.
Read MoreThe U.S. FDA is updating the April 2020 Safety Communication to provide new information supporting the transition to fully disposable duodenoscopes and those with disposable components.