Effects of the design of operating rooms/theatres on safety is vastly underestimated . In this new study we looked at improving the delays for calling for help using an emergency buzzer by making it more visible using a red line from the ceiling to the buzzer.
Installing the line more than halved the number of times calling for help was delayed. #HumanFactors#PatientSafety#Anaesthesia#Anesthesiology
The correct response to a high prevalence of HCW infections is not “don’t measure”, it’s mitigate risk.
This includes requiring fit-tested respirators as source control, or task transfer where appropriate. This is what we did in Victorian hospitals. Return to work (without a second test) when well enough after diagnoses and wear a fit-tested respirator at all times through to day 10. https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/111212145176676384 via @luckytran
At the @Webairs workshop at #asansc2023 learning how to frame the learnings from an adverse or near adverse event into a #BowtieDiagram.
Another way doctors and #anaesthesia are learning from aircraft safety.
Prior to the pandemic our hospitals in Victoria Australia never fit-tested their staff for respirators.
Now we have fit testers employed full time at the Royal Children’s Hospital and staff that were fit tested at the beginning of the pandemic are being retested to ensure their face shape hasn’t changed, and that new Australian made models fit. 🧵(1/n) #N95#MasksWork#PatientSafety