MedSun 3rd Annual Conference

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MedSun3rd Annual Conference

• Susan Gardner, PhD
• Director
• Office of Surveillance and Biometrics
• Center for Devices and Radiological Health

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How Are We Doing?MedSun Survey Results

• Response from 312 participants
• Critical information for justification of program
• Critical information for improving the program

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Patient Safety ToolsWhats Useful ?

• MedSun News
• Very or extremely useful 40
• Useful 39
• Somewhat useful 19
• Not useful 2

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MedSun News

• MedSun reports
• - 98 read at least some of them
• - 97 have shared report information with staff
• Other Information
• - 99 read at least some
• - 61 used information from the newsletter

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Other Important Safety Tools Useful, Very and
Extremely

• Special database searches 85
• Safety alerts and public health notifications
  82
• Product recall information 80
• Premarket approval information 32
• Clinical engineering audio 80
• MedSun participants website link 82
• MedSun annual conference 98

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How You Use Safety Information
Disseminate
Prevention
Education
Reinforce/Feedback
Verification
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Specific Incidents

• Bovie cords
• Infusion pumps
• MRI safety
• Pall ventilator filters
• Disposable pacemaker cables
• Warming blankets
• Free hosing
• Pediatric trach issues
• Patient lifts

• OR fire prevention
• Alcohol dispenser placement
• Infection control
• Falls/entrapment prevention
• Staplers
• Endoscopes
• Laboratory issues
• Nasal shavers

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Have we made a difference?Manufacturer Changes

• Gripper Plus Safety Needle
• Medex SecureEasy Endotrach
• Masimo Radical Pulse Oximeter
• Edwards Venous Arterial Blood
• Tyco Kendall Magellan Needle

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Have we made a difference?

• National Public Health Notification on Hemostatic
  agents
• ECRI Health Advisory Alert
• Developed the ESU workshop
• Initiated collaborative study
• Infusion pumps at the VA
• Pulmonary catheter Rapid Response
• Drug Eluting Stent Survey

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You also helped us

• Participation in the Flow of Information Study
• Redesign of MDR search engine
• Design of the Medical Device Safety Webpage
• Development of checklist for selection and
  purchase of medical devices

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More to come

• MedSun Grant program
• Clinical Engineering Conferences
• Redesign of MedSun newsletter
• Sutures project
• Educational video
• Input from MedSun Working Group
• Evaluation of survey results..

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Does MedSun Make a Difference?

• Did participation in MedSun have any impact on
  patient safety?

YES! 78
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