2012 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 53-56
Ensuring safety is an important aspect during acute blood purification therapy. Our hospital has had many years of experience in maintenance dialysis therapy and has conducted different types of inspections to enhance safety while administering continuous hemodiafiltration (CHDF). From these inspections, 1 inspection is performed before administering CHDF, when priming is completed, treatment conditions are appropriate, and all items are available. At our hospital, our clinical engineers have always implemented this inspection since the introduction of the CHDF device at our institution in 2000. When the data obtained on abnormal incidents discovered and corrected through the inspection were accumulated, the result showed that the number of abnormal incidents caused by human errors, such as setting mistakes, surpassed the number of abnormal incidents caused by device failures. Thus, the results suggest that inspections effective ensure safety while performing acute blood purification therapy.
