Maintaining safety for both patients and healthcare workers can be a challenge. Adverse safety events such as errors, accidents and non-standardised procedures can strain the institution.<\/p>\n
Making the #BDSafetySwitch<\/strong> goes beyond the optimisation of a single process or practice. Safety is a mindset, a culture that permeates every facet of healthcare.<\/p>\n Discover 4 of the top safety hazards and how the #BDSafetySwitch can benefit you, your team and your patients.<\/p>\n The global healthcare workforce suffers 2 million needlestick injuries a year, with about 44.5% of all healthcare workers having reported experiencing at least one event.1<\/sup><\/p>\n Evidence suggests that when compared with conventional sharps, safety-engineered devices can help reduce the incidence of needlestick injuries, thus increasing vascular access safety.2<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When a syringe and a syringe pump are incompatible, patients can experience inaccurate fluid delivery or occlusion in the line, posing a serious threat to safety.3<\/sup> A lack of flow continuity can lead to:3<\/sup><\/p>\n Interestingly, evidence suggests that the availability of more than one brand of syringe in a clinical area increases the risk of adverse drug delivery events.4<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Misconnection errors occur when medication delivery systems are erroneously connected via an unintended route, leading to wrong-route medication administration.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Wrong-route medication errors can have significant safety consequences with high morbidity, mortality, patient suffering and expenses.5 <\/sup><\/p>\n Medication errors are considered preventable, and those of which result from misconnection errors can be reduced by:6 <\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n With infusion therapy comes the inherent risk of drug contamination from microbiological, chemical or physical sources.7 <\/sup><\/p>\n Particulate drug contamination, defined as foreign, undissolved, mobile particles, can pose serious health risks to patients, including central venous catheter (CVC) obstruction, occurrence of potentially fatal embolism, deposits of calcium phosphate crystals in various organs during parenteral nutrition or systemic inflammatory response syndromes (SIRS).7<\/sup><\/p>\n The use of filter needles, in-line filters and pre-filled syringes have all demonstrated to reduce glass particle drug contamination to help increase infusion and vascular access safety.7<\/sup><\/p>\n Want to learn more about how you can make the #BDSafetySwitch<\/strong>?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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