Several factors have been incriminated in the etiologies of critical incidents: shortages in organizing rules, anesthesia technique, patient environment, human factor, team work and communication. This is the third follow up report describing our performance during the last five years (2003-2008). The possible incriminating causes were identified with the objective of avoiding such eventualitie...

BACKGROUND Medical residents are key figures in delivering health care and an important target group for patient safety education. Reporting incidents is an important patient safety domain, as awareness of vulnerabilities could be a starting point for improvements. This study examined effects of patient safety education for residents on knowledge, skills, attitudes, intentions and behavior conc...

Application Service Maintenance Projects normally deals with Incidents as First Level support function. Incidents in majority directly link with Production Environment, so Turn around Time for Incidents is a significant factor. Many Companies are having Service Level Agreements with Customer for Turn around Time for Incidents. There is a need to focus on Estimating and Predicting Turn around Ti...

Since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and the subsequent reports of raised cancer risks among survivors in the two cities, there has been interest and concern about risks arising from this and other nuclear incidents, such as the 1986 Chernobyl accident. This article reviews methodological aspects associated with the detection of cancer risks in groups exposed to ionising...

Introduction: Emergence from anesthesia is the critical period. This early emergence period is rife with potential complications. In order to enable early detection and prompt treatment of these potential complications by the practitioner, there needs to be an effective system of detection and reporting of all adverse events occurring during the period of emergence. The purpose of this audit wa...

CONTEXT Information on childhood poisoning in the developing world, including South Africa, is scarce, despite its contribution to morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE We describe the profile of children with exposures and poisonings presenting to Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCWMCH) in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2003 to 2008 and compare the trends of causative agents over the...

The purpose of this study was to extend previous examinations of commercial multi-crew airplane accidents and incidents to evaluate the Crew Resource Management (CRM) application as it relates to error management during the final approach and landing phase of flight. With data obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a x test o...

background: exposure to blood-borne pathogens from needle-stick and sharp injuries continues to pose a significant risk to health care workers. these events are of concern because of the risk to transmit blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus, and the human immunodeficiency virus. objective: to benchmark different risk factors associated with needle-stick incidents am...

CONTEXT Parental stress is believed to play a critical role in child maltreatment, and deployment is often stressful for military families. OBJECTIVE To examine the association between combat-related deployment and rates of child maltreatment in families of enlisted soldiers in the US Army who had 1 or more substantiated reports of child maltreatment. DESIGN AND SETTING Descriptive case ser...

OBJECTIVES To present a dataset concerning acute releases of hazardous chemicals in Poland in 2005 in the context of the HSEES system implemented in Poland. MATERIAL AND METHODS ATSDR, as the coordinator of the HSEES system, determined the kind and scope of data to be collected. In Poland, the fire department's reports were the main source of information on chemical emergencies. RESULTS In ...