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Hospitals should record audio and video to systematically reduce accidents and infections, the way that data recorders have systematically reduced aircraft acci
by MarkMc 7y ago
Hospitals should record audio and video to systematically reduce accidents and infections, the way that data recorders have systematically reduced aircraft accidents.
A few years ago I was severely immunocompromised and treated in an isolated hospital room. Too frequently a doctor or nurse would forget to wash their hands before touching me or my IV line, or would then pick up a pen they had dropped on the floor, or would touch their beeper, or would sneeze into their hands, or some other lapse in hygene. One time an unusual situation and distracted nurse led to my IV line having a large amount of air in the line, which would have been pumped into my bloodstream if I hadn't stopped the machine.
Of course, the patient would need to be convinced that it was worth the loss of privacy. And the nurses would need to be convinced that individual nurses would not be blamed.
- WalterBright 7y ago> And the nurses would need to be convinced that individual nurses would not be blamed. Not using that information to assign blame is crucial. It must only be used to evaluate changes in procedures and equipment that will improve outcomes. Legislation that guarantees that such recordings are inadmissible in court would help a lot.
- LifeLiverTransp 7y agoAre you aware of how ridiculous some hygenic laws in hospitals are? Basically if you would follow the rules, your hands would be festering, open wounds within a week. This unrealistic, human nature blind, algorithmic thinking which grinded the rules "ignoreable" in the first place, is what you need to solve. The result may look stupid (japanes train conductor hand signs), and may even feel counterintuitive (UVW-Colour on all the doorhandles) and it might also need to acknowledge that some "basic equipment" - like rubbergloves, are for the wearer a health hazard. https://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/occupational-skin-disease/ https://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/occupational-skin-disease/ Sorry if someone weights his own health higher then yours during his/her working hours. No surveilance in the world will encourage people to ruin there hands.