Safety Management and Maintenance of Life Support Instruments Using in Operating Room : with Regard to Anesthesia Machines(Safety Management and Nursing of Medical Equipment Concerning Life Support)

2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (8) ◽  
pp. 488-493
Author(s):  
C. Nishimura
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Medical Equipment ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Anesthesia Machines

scholarly journals Organizing in the Anthropocene

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Wright ◽  
Daniel Nyberg ◽  
Lauren Rickards ◽  
James Freund
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Introductory Article

The functioning of the biosphere and the Earth as a whole is being radically disrupted due to human activities, evident in climate change, toxic pollution and mass species extinction. Financialization and exponential growth in production, consumption and population now threaten our planet’s life-support systems. These profound changes have led Earth System scientists to argue we have now entered a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. In this introductory article to the Special Issue, we first set out the origins of the Anthropocene and some of the key debates around this concept within the physical and social sciences. We then explore five key organizing narratives that inform current economic, technological, political and cultural understandings of the Anthropocene and link these to the contributions in this Special Issue. We argue that the Anthropocene is the crucial issue for organizational scholars to engage with in order to not only understand on-going anthropogenic problems but also help create alternative forms of organizing based on realistic Earth–human relations.

scholarly journals Taxonomy of Surgical Delay Related to Sterile Processing and Domino Effect

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-295
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. LaForge ◽  
Helen J. A. Fuller ◽  
Timothy Arnold ◽  
Kristin Chrouser ◽  
William Gunnar
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Medical Equipment ◽  
Domino Effect ◽  
Staff Time ◽  
Surgical Delay ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Instructions For Use ◽  
Sterile Processing ◽  
Work Done

Successful surgery does not just depend on the skills and knowledge of those in the operating room but also on the staff that insure the needed instrumentation is available and sterile. The process that continuously provides reusable medical equipment (RME) to the Operating Room (OR) requires highly specialized expertise over a wide range of instrumentation. The reprocessing team must be familiar with instructions for use (IFU), and how to apply them to process every piece of RME from surgeries, endoscopies, and clinic procedures. Coupled with the limitations of staff, time, and resources and with competing demands to produce sterile instruments and environments that work in almost total isolation from each other, there are several gaps in the process that must be identified and bridged. While the workflow for moving between the Sterile Processing Department (SPD) and the OR is sometimes thought as a fairly simple circular flowchart, the realities of work done versus work imagined are vastly different. In addition, these challenges vary considerably across different departments, even in a single healthcare system, and as such there are no simple solutions. Understanding the demands on the SPD, the needs in the OR for sterile RME, and the patient safety concerns that drive this cycle are critical if we are to improve the process.

Special Issue: Total Safety Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 125-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Kontogiannis ◽  
M.C. Leva ◽  
Olga Aneziris
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Special Issue
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