Reducing Clinical Risks Associated with Reusable Medical Devices: A Regulatory, Patient Safety, Risk Management, and Infection Control Perspective
ASHRM CE Credit: 1.0
Domain: Clinical Patient Safety
Level: Practitioner
Our expert faculty reviews evidence-based strategies to improve infection control practices and eliminate reprocessing errors commonly observed in clinical practice.
Recently, the Food and Drug Administration released multiple Safety Alerts to notify health care providers and facilities of recent adverse events associated with reprocessing failures and device design challenges of many reusable instruments and other medical devices. The webinar reviews common reprocessing errors that take place in the inpatient and outpatient procedural areas and central sterile processing departments that can lead to patient safety breaches, risks for health care-associated infections, and preventable associated mortality and morbidity.
Objectives:
- • Discuss the clinical implications of the recent FDA Safety Alert regarding reusable medical devices and contamination risks.
- • Review the current evidence-based clinical recommendations for infection control related to the use of medical devices to prevent cross-contamination and infection risk.
- • Discuss how to operationalize the FDA and CDC medical device safety recommendations to mitigate risks to the patient and health care provider team.
Speaker: J. Hudson Garrett Jr., PhD, MSN, MPH, MBA, FNP-BC, IP-BC, PLNC, CFER, AS-BC, VA-BC, BC-MSLcert™, NCEE, NREMT, MSL-BC, DICO-C, TR-C, CPPS, CCHR-S, CPHQ, CPXP, FACDONA, FAAPM, FNAP, FSHEA, FIDSA
| Product Code | 322010OD22 |
| ASHRM CE Credits | 1.0 |
| CNE Credits | 1.0 |
| Domain | Clinical Patient Safety |
| Level - Foundational (F), Practitioner (P), Advanced (A) | P |
| Publication Date | 3/30/22 |
| Next Review | 7/1/24 |
| Credit Expires | 7/1/25 |
For questions regarding this webinar, contact ASHRMEd@aha.org
Speaker Bio
Dr. Hudson Garrett is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and a Faculty member for the newly created Center for Education and Training Infection Prevention which is a CDC-funded training center. He also co-founded the nonprofit the Infection Prevention Institute to help shepherd dissemination of best practices of infection prevention and control across the health care continuum of care globally. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Infection Prevention and Infection Control from the University of South Florida. He has completed the Johns Hopkins Fellows Program in Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control. He is also a Fellow in the Academy of National Associations of Directors of Nursing Administration and was selected as a Lifetime Member in the Association, which is the highest honor bestowed upon a member. He is also a Fellow, the American Academy of Project Management, and a Senior Fellow and Ambassador of the Management and Strategy Institute. In 2019, he was inducted as a Distinguished Fellow and Practitioner in the National Academies of Practices. Dr. Garrett was recently selected in 2020 as 1 of 20 health care leaders globally to participate in the 2021 13-month Global Patient Safety Fellowship with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is a graduate of the IHI Patient Safety Executive Development Program. In August of 2021, Dr. Garrett was awarded the prestigious Fellowship Designation by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America in recognition of his work in infectious diseases and infection prevention and control. In November 2021, he was awarded the Fellow Designation by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He holds graduate certificates in health care leadership from both Cornell and the University of Notre Dame. He is an appointed member of the advisory committee for the Design Thinking in Healthcare Program at Rutgers University.