Task Force Patient Safety

In order to facilitate the implementation of the Helsinki Declaration ESA and EBA have jointly set up a Task Force.

Action plan of the Task Force Patient Safety

1. Create Ressources

Template for safety report
Protocols

2. Create Visibility

Webpage

Annual report

3. Create Benefit

Clearing house for IR

One of the topics mentioned in the Helsinki Declaration is incident reporting. Today incident reporting is used locally in individual departments, hospitals, trusts or even nationally. These reported incidents sometimes have a huge learning potential. In oder to share this knowledge about rare but potential hazardous incidents we will build up a platform where we share:
- individual incidents with outstanding importance
- national recommendations out of incident reporting systems
If you are interested to share your critical incident, that is of major importance, please contact the chairman of the Task force.
If you are running a national incident reporting system in anaesthesiology and you are interested in sharing your national informations and/or recommendations out of your system, please contact the chairman of the Task force .

4. Create knowledge

Drug syringe labelling study

Under the patronage of the University of Geneva (CH) department of anaesthesiology, a European study on drug syringe labelling practices will be carried out in January 2011. Drug error occurs frequently at all stages of the therapeutic process with an incidence from 1 to 100 up to 1 to 10 at each stage of drug circuit – prescription with inaccuracy and without reflexion on interaction, dispensation, production of final drug solution, drug labelling immediate before administration, drug administration with underdosing or overdosing or reconstitution after drug error. Most of the drug errors are of minimal consequence, however, they can also result in more severe consequences. A prospective web-based survey of physicians and nurses in European Departments of Anaesthesiology will be performed between January and February 2011. The survey will be distributed to all ESA members using the ESA membership database via email. Please be aware of the corresponding mail/information that will be send to you in January/February 2011.