Posted by Laura Landro in the Wall Street Journal Health blog
The ECRI Institute, which researches patient safety issues, issued its second annual report on the top 10 technology hazards that every hospital should pay more attention to.
Without further ado, here are the top five problems for 2008:
1. Alarm hazards
2. Needlesticks and injuries from sharps
3. Air embolisms from contrast media injectors
4. Retained devices and fragments left in patients
5. Surgical fires
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