Patient safety in medical facilities
As part of patient safety in health care facilities, it is important to comply with the following requirements:
- Ensuring the cleanliness of hands of medical workers. Compliance with the rules of personal hand hygiene, the use of disposable sterile gloves, antiseptic treatment of gloves in most cases can solve this problem.
- Use only sterile instruments in necessary cases in the treatment of patients. In contact with patient’s tissues, blood, saliva, pus, dressing materials, etc. infection of the instruments occurs. Disposable sterile instruments and materials are widely used. Quality processing and sterilization of re-used tools is important.
- Application of sanitary and antiepidemic regime in medical institutions. Thorough cleaning with the use of disinfectants, regular medical examination of staff can solve the problem of biological safety of patients and staff.
- Safe pharmacotherapy and adequate anesthesia during surgical interventions. It should be remembered that the administration of lido-cain, for example, may lead to the death of the patient.
- Dentist-dentist must skillfully communicate with patients, because dental interventions are performed in a powerful reflex zone and often cause fear in patients.
- Preventing the fall of patients in the treatment facility is also important in terms of safety, especially for elderly people.
- Efficient and safe interaction of medical facility staff, especially in the conditions of high-tech operations and manipulations involving several people, the team. In these situations, the problem is distorted when receiving or transmitting medical information.
- Striving to eliminate medical errors. The personal professional training of a doctor and the organization of the work of the treatment and preventive care institution play a major role.
- Private issues of patient safety can be prevention of fires in operating theatres, prevention of electrical and radiation injuries, and others.
Patients may develop life-threatening conditions in the departments of a medical facility: fainting, collapse, shock, convulsions and comas, acute heart and lung insufficiency, various injuries. In these cases, there is a need for emergency medical care.
The staff of medical institutions should know and effectively apply in practice the whole arsenal of necessary measures in each case to get the patient out of a life-threatening condition.
Adverse reactions may occur as a result of any medical interventions, even if they are properly performed (regardless of whether they are diagnostic, therapeutic or rehabilitation).
Patient safety is the maximum possible compliance of the outcome of treatment waiting for the doctor and the patient with the minimum risk of negative consequences of treatment and diagnosis.
Today, the health of the population is one of the most important directions of development of the country for a long historical period, as well as ensuring stability and prosperity in society and national security of the state as a whole. Security is considered as a social value.