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Options: Surgical Fire Poster About MDSR ECRI-CHUBB Alliance Table of Contents Site Map Device Problem Reporting Search Tips Search Help Search Parameters: 20 Results Per Page 50 Results Per Page 100 Results Per Page All Results On One Page Brief (title only) Detailed (title, excerpt) Welcome to ECRI Institute’s Medical Device Safety Reports (MDSR) database. MDSR is a repository of medical device incident and hazard information independently investigated by ECRI Institute, a nonprofit health research agency. MDSR is not an alerting service, but a periodically updated review of the types of problems that have occurred with medical devices and lessons learned over the past three decades. It focuses on the steps that medical device users can take to prevent or reduce medical device risks to patient care and healthcare worker safety. You can search through MDSR by using either the criteria provided in the picklists or by using the free text search box below. For current alerts and a historical database see our Health Devices Alerts database. Perform Text Search: En phrases in quotes for best results Search Help Cause of Device-Related Incident Clinical Specialty or Hospital Dept: Device Factors: (Any of the following) *Not stated Device factors External factors Support system failures Tampering and/or sabotage User errors (Any of the following) *Not stated Anesthesia Cardiology/Cardiac Catheterization Cardiopulmonary Perfusion Cardiothoracic Surgery CCU/ICU/NICU Clinical Laboratory Clinical/Biomedical Engineering Continuing Care CSR/Materials Management Dermatology Dialysis Emergency Medicine Facilities Engineering Gift Shop Home Healthcare Infection Control Medical Records Neonatology Nephrology Neurological Surgery Neurology Nursery Nursing Obstetrics and Gynecology Oncology Ophthalmology OR/Surgery Orthopedics Otolaryngology Pathology Pediatrics Pharmacy/IV therapy Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation Proctology Psychiatry Pulmonary/Respiratory Therapy Radiology/Ultrasound/Nuclear Med. Surgical Pathology Urology (Any of the following) *Not stated Design/labeling error Device failure Device interaction Failure of accessory Improper maintenance, testing, repair, or lack or failure of incoming inspection Improper modification Invalid device foundation Manufacturing error Packaging error Random component failure Document Type: External Factors: Mechanism of Injury or Death: (Any of the following) Checklists/Emergency Procedures Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Guidance Articles Hazard Reports Posters User Experience Network (UEN) reports (Any of the following) *Not stated Electromagnetic or radio-frequency interference (EMI and RFI) Environmental (temperature, humidity, light) Medical gas and vacuum supplies Power supply (including piped medical gases) Water supply (Any of the following) *Not stated Anaphylaxis Barotrauma Blindness Burn (electrical, thermal, chemical) Coagulopathy Electrical shock/electrocution Embolism (gaseous or particulate) Exposure to airborne infectious agents Exposure to biohazards Exposure to bloodborne pathogens Exposure to hazardous gas Exsanguination Extravasation Failure to deliver therapy Fire Hemolysis Hemorrhage Hyperthermia Infection Infiltration Interruption of therapy Ischemia Mechanical (puncture, perforate, lacerate, break, cut, tear, nick, crush) Misdiagnosis Monitoring failure Overdose Particulates Skin Injury Suffocation Underdose Various Wrong drug Support System Failures: Tampering and/or Sabotage: User Errors: (Any of the following) *Not stated Error in hospital policy Failure to train and/or credential Improper storage Lack of competent accident investigation Lack or failure of incoming and pre-use inspections Poor prepurchase evaluation Use of inappropriate devices (Any of the following) *Not stated Tampering (Any of the following) *Not stated Abuse of device Accidental misconnections Accidental spill Device misassembly Failure to perform pre-use inspection Failure to read label Improper connection Inappropriate reliance on an automated feature Incorrect clinical use Incorrect control settings [ Home ] [ About ] [ Help ] [ Site Map ] Copyright © 2021 ECRI All rights reserved...