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How Safe Are Pediatric Patients in Your Operating Room?
Program Code:
FR-05
Date:
Friday, October 23, 2009
Time:
9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
EST
PRESENTER
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Tetsu (Butch) Uejima,
MD, CPHRM, Medical Director, Risk Mgmt; Director, Liver/Intestinal Transplant Anesthesia, Patient Safety Officer,
Children's Memorial Hospital
Butch Uejima is an anesthesiologist at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago and an associate professor at Northwestern University. He is the medical director of risk management and is the chief risk officer for Children's. He also oversees their patient safety program. Butch is one of a few physicians with CPHRM certification. He has been on the ASHRM pearls taskforce and on the journal editorial board. He sits on the ASA Patient Safety Editorial Board, the ASA committee on professional liability, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation committee on education and training and the board of
the new Wake Up Safe Quality Initiative.
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Description
Many children in the United States undergo surgery at community hospitals that are not ideally suited for these services. Among the particular problems are the non-verbal or immature patient population, medical personnel inexperience, lack of infrastructure support (inadequate or inappropriately sized equipment) and lack of subspecialist support. The session highlights these challenges and presents strategies to solve them.
LEARNER OUTCOMES:
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understand the potential problems in any pediatric patient undergoin surgery and anesthesia
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understand the role of caregivers in the entire patient safety process in the operating room
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understand the role of hospital infrastructure and it's safety net in making surgery safer