Hyperbaric Oxygen Safety: Clinical and Technical Issues (enduring material)

Course overview

Learner Objectives 1. To summarize what medical devices would optimally be available for hyperbaric use. 2. To outline what is best practice regarding hyperbaric medical devices. 3. To identify systems and discuss potential ways moving forward. 4. To learn the most significant opportunities for improvement that are related to operational issues identified in the UHMS Hyperbaric Facility Accreditation Program. 5. To learn the most significant opportunities for improvement that are related to safety issues identified in the UHMS Hyperbaric Facility Accreditation Program. 6. Identify scenarios where failure to maintain situation awareness, e.g. distractions will adversely affect patient safety. 7. List human factors that adversely affect patient safety and how to mitigate those risk factors. 8. Recognize high-risk industries and how their management of risk has led to successes and failures. 9. Understand how human action (and human error) relate to the workplace system. 10. Apply current safety and human error concepts to the hyperbaric medicine environment. 11. To identify the vital components of a well-designed safety stop. 12. To recognize hyperbaric related code requirements regarding safety stops. 13. The relative overall status of a recompression can be objectively quantified. 14. To understand basic non-provocative data can be used to predict the level of facility risk. 15. To understand training is the key to a safe recompression facility operation. Subject Matter 1. Safety considerations in hyperbaric medicine: Lessons from aviation, space, and other industries 2. The Role of the Medical Director in the Safety Program 3. How to implement the nursing guidelines of care to improve safety in your HBO2 program 4. Human factors that impact safety in hyperbaric operations 5. Optimizing the pediatric hyperbaric oxygen therapy plan: Tandem therapy 6. Panel Q&A from the morning session 7. Safety-related trends revealed from the UHMS Facility Accreditation Program 8. Assessing the safety of diver recompression chamber facilities. A retrospective review of the most common safety concerns encountered at a range of recompression facilities over a period of 13 years 9. International survey of equipment used in hyperbaric facilities 10. Biomedical devices in the hyperbaric environment 11. Panel Q & A from the afternoon session. Teaching Methods: Video lectures with PPT embedded, Panel Sessions, Evaluation quiz after each lesson. Evaluation Methods: Evaluation is offered online through UHMS website, which evaluates the effectiveness of the meeting, speakers and that no bias was presented and overall objectives were met. References: Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, North Palm Beach, Florida; National Fire Protection Association 99, Health Care Facilities; 2015. www.nfpa.org; UHMS Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Indications, Thirteenth Edition, Dr. Lindell Weaver, April 2014 (http://www.bestpub.com/books/hyperbaric-a-undersea-medicine/product/359-ebook-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-indications-thirteenth-edition.html)