Presented By: Industrial & Operations Engineering
IOE 813 Seminar: Karen K. Giuliano
IV "Smart" Pumps: Evidence to Guide Practice and Patient Safety
In this session, I will present our program of empirically-based research on IV smart pump usability problems, common user workarounds, drug library compliance/adherence/ interoperability issues, common infusion-related medication administration errors will be reviewed, and issues related to flow rate accuracy. I will use several, real life, case study examples/hands-on experience, to clearly illustrate these issues.
To be safe and effective, a human factors systems approach should be used to minimize the known and potential risks of IV smart pumps while maximizing the full scope of their benefits. Frontline care providers, primarily nurses, working along with their engineering colleagues, are the ideal team to inform and guide innovation in this very important area of patient safety.
Karen Giuliano is currently Co-Director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, and a Professor (Joint), the Institute for Applied Life Sciences and the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst. With a clinical background in critical care and 25+ years of global experience in the development of new medical products, Karen has a passion for improving healthcare through innovation. Her expertise includes human-centered design and clinical outcomes research.
Karen actively contributes to many professional organizations, and works with small, medium and large companies on medical product development and innovation. Karen enjoys working with frontline caregivers to support research at the point-of-care. In addition, her own interdisciplinary program of research is focused in two main areas: non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia and IV infusion safety using IV Smart Pumps.
The seminar series “Providing Better Healthcare through Systems Engineering” is presented by the U-M Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS): Our mission is to improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery through a multi-disciplinary, systems-engineering approach.
For the Zoom link and password, and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series,
please RSVP, or contact genehkim@umich.edu
To be safe and effective, a human factors systems approach should be used to minimize the known and potential risks of IV smart pumps while maximizing the full scope of their benefits. Frontline care providers, primarily nurses, working along with their engineering colleagues, are the ideal team to inform and guide innovation in this very important area of patient safety.
Karen Giuliano is currently Co-Director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, and a Professor (Joint), the Institute for Applied Life Sciences and the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst. With a clinical background in critical care and 25+ years of global experience in the development of new medical products, Karen has a passion for improving healthcare through innovation. Her expertise includes human-centered design and clinical outcomes research.
Karen actively contributes to many professional organizations, and works with small, medium and large companies on medical product development and innovation. Karen enjoys working with frontline caregivers to support research at the point-of-care. In addition, her own interdisciplinary program of research is focused in two main areas: non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia and IV infusion safety using IV Smart Pumps.
The seminar series “Providing Better Healthcare through Systems Engineering” is presented by the U-M Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS): Our mission is to improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery through a multi-disciplinary, systems-engineering approach.
For the Zoom link and password, and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series,
please RSVP, or contact genehkim@umich.edu
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