Patient Safety: Prevention and Treatment of Complications in Hyperbaric Medicine.

Abstract

Contents: Faculty; Contents; Program; Preface; Welcome Address; Session I: Patient Safety and Adverse Events in Hyperbaric Medicine Patient safety: the new frontier (Paul Barach); The "Incident Benchmarking Project" (Dick Clarke); HIMS: A worldwide database on hyperbaric incidents (Christy Pirone); Discussion Session I; Session II: Ear Barotrauma, the Major Complication A review of the literature on ear barotrauma (Dick Clarke); A standardized scoring system to diagnose ear barotraumas (Ian Millar); Prevention and treatment in the clinical hyperbaric routine (Jeff Vrabec); Discussion Session II; Session III: Efficacy of Screening Procedures in Preventing Patient Complications Review of screening procedures for elective hyperbaric admission (Peter Mueller); Pro: Screening procedures useful (Richard Moon); Con: Screening procedures useful (Caroline Fife); Discussion Session III; Session IV: Ensuring Organizational Safety in Hyperbaric Environments Equipment and chamber related incidents (Paul Sheffield); The hyperbaric incident monitoring study (HIMS): equipment analysis (Tom Workman); Discussion Session IV; Summary Panel and Closure; Appendices; Summary of the Workshop; Attendees List