Compatibility and Safety Implications Associated with Interfacing Medical Devices in Neonatal Respiratory Care: A Case Example Using the Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery System
Anthony L DeWitt,1 Jaron Acker,2 Thomas A Larkin,3 Jim L Potenziano,4 Jeffrey M Schmidt5 1Penumbra Seminars, LLC, Auburn, AL, USA; 2Medical Device Marketing, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Bedminster, NJ, USA; 3Device Engineering R&D, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland...
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| description | Anthony L DeWitt,1 Jaron Acker,2 Thomas A Larkin,3 Jim L Potenziano,4 Jeffrey M Schmidt5 1Penumbra Seminars, LLC, Auburn, AL, USA; 2Medical Device Marketing, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Bedminster, NJ, USA; 3Device Engineering R&D, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland; 4Scientific Affairs, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Bedminster, NJ, USA; 5Device Development, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Madison, WI, USACorrespondence: Anthony L DeWitt 2755 National Village Parkway, Opelika, AL, 36801, USATel +1 573 230-4220Email aldewitt@aldewitt.comAbstract: Over the past decade, international organizations have instituted strict regulations for the safe use of connected medical devices. The International Organization for Standardization and the Medical Device Single Audit Program instituted certifications to ensure that connected devices are compatible and operate within their proper clinical parameters. These efforts came about, in part, as a consequence of clinicians’ decisions to use nonstandard, modified, or improvised devices for purposes outside the original manufacturers’ approved parameters. Unapproved device modifications can be associated with increased risk of dosing errors, monitoring errors, tubing misconnections and serious or potentially fatal adverse events; furthermore, health care providers who implement unapproved device modifications may assume legal and financial liability should harm come to patients as a consequence of the modification. Using the inhaled nitric oxide delivery system as an example, the objective of this paper is to raise awareness of the potential dangers associated with unapproved modification and interfacing of therapeutic gas delivery systems and ventilators in the neonatal intensive care unit setting. The paper also highlights the rationale and necessity for rigorous validation processes that ensure that interfaced medical devices perform as intended in the clinical setting.Keywords: patient safety, equipment failure, medical device legislation |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0baad3c5310d4d9ca8ebb648def53b162022-12-21T19:28:02ZengDove Medical PressMedical Devices: Evidence and Research1179-14702021-02-01Volume 14273562242Compatibility and Safety Implications Associated with Interfacing Medical Devices in Neonatal Respiratory Care: A Case Example Using the Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery SystemDeWitt ALAcker JLarkin TAPotenziano JLSchmidt JMAnthony L DeWitt,1 Jaron Acker,2 Thomas A Larkin,3 Jim L Potenziano,4 Jeffrey M Schmidt5 1Penumbra Seminars, LLC, Auburn, AL, USA; 2Medical Device Marketing, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Bedminster, NJ, USA; 3Device Engineering R&D, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland; 4Scientific Affairs, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Bedminster, NJ, USA; 5Device Development, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Madison, WI, USACorrespondence: Anthony L DeWitt 2755 National Village Parkway, Opelika, AL, 36801, USATel +1 573 230-4220Email aldewitt@aldewitt.comAbstract: Over the past decade, international organizations have instituted strict regulations for the safe use of connected medical devices. The International Organization for Standardization and the Medical Device Single Audit Program instituted certifications to ensure that connected devices are compatible and operate within their proper clinical parameters. These efforts came about, in part, as a consequence of clinicians’ decisions to use nonstandard, modified, or improvised devices for purposes outside the original manufacturers’ approved parameters. Unapproved device modifications can be associated with increased risk of dosing errors, monitoring errors, tubing misconnections and serious or potentially fatal adverse events; furthermore, health care providers who implement unapproved device modifications may assume legal and financial liability should harm come to patients as a consequence of the modification. Using the inhaled nitric oxide delivery system as an example, the objective of this paper is to raise awareness of the potential dangers associated with unapproved modification and interfacing of therapeutic gas delivery systems and ventilators in the neonatal intensive care unit setting. The paper also highlights the rationale and necessity for rigorous validation processes that ensure that interfaced medical devices perform as intended in the clinical setting.Keywords: patient safety, equipment failure, medical device legislationhttps://www.dovepress.com/compatibility-and-safety-implications-associated-with-interfacing-medi-peer-reviewed-article-MDERpatient safetyequipment failuremedical device legislation |
| spellingShingle | DeWitt AL Acker J Larkin TA Potenziano JL Schmidt JM Compatibility and Safety Implications Associated with Interfacing Medical Devices in Neonatal Respiratory Care: A Case Example Using the Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery System Medical Devices: Evidence and Research patient safety equipment failure medical device legislation |
| title | Compatibility and Safety Implications Associated with Interfacing Medical Devices in Neonatal Respiratory Care: A Case Example Using the Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery System |
| title_full | Compatibility and Safety Implications Associated with Interfacing Medical Devices in Neonatal Respiratory Care: A Case Example Using the Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery System |
| title_fullStr | Compatibility and Safety Implications Associated with Interfacing Medical Devices in Neonatal Respiratory Care: A Case Example Using the Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery System |
| title_full_unstemmed | Compatibility and Safety Implications Associated with Interfacing Medical Devices in Neonatal Respiratory Care: A Case Example Using the Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery System |
| title_short | Compatibility and Safety Implications Associated with Interfacing Medical Devices in Neonatal Respiratory Care: A Case Example Using the Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery System |
| title_sort | compatibility and safety implications associated with interfacing medical devices in neonatal respiratory care a case example using the inhaled nitric oxide delivery system |
| topic | patient safety equipment failure medical device legislation |
| url | https://www.dovepress.com/compatibility-and-safety-implications-associated-with-interfacing-medi-peer-reviewed-article-MDER |
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