When is an Unplanned Recovery a Near Miss? Hemovigilance Incident Reporting into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
Program Code: 094609
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (ET)

MODERATOR
Barbee Whitaker, PhD, AABB

SPEAKERS
Barbara Rabin Fastman, MHA, MT(ASCP)SC, BB, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

DESCRIPTION
This audioconference will cover incidents and near miss events as defined in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Biovigilance Component Protocol. Although these definitions were developed by the AABB Hemovigilance Working Group for NHSN participants, they can be used by any transfusion service interested in using standard definitions. The program will apply incident criteria (definitions) to actual example events. Some of the events that will be discussed include wrong blood in tube (WBIT), computer warning over ridden, sampling errors and special processing errors.
This program is offered at no cost for AABB Institutional members, one registration per institution.