Calidad y seguridad en perfusión.

Resumo

The United States Institute of Medicine in 1999 published the document: “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System”, after this publication, any organism dedicated to healthcare quality should have as a main objective: patients’ safety. In the following years several countries (USA, Holland, Denmark and Australia) published adverse events in medical practice in which 5% to 10% of these events resulted in the death of the patient, from this background, policies for healthcare quality and safety have been implemented.
Nowadays, it is necessary to achieve defined behavioral patterns based on the quality and safety requirements expected in the perfusion process. Criteria, standards and indicators must be defined to help evaluate and control the perfusion process. For it, a proposal of 8 quality standards with their matching indicators that cover the entire perfusion process has been developed; based on the American Association of Extracorporeal Circulation and the Spanish Association of Perfusionists. The most important aspect of this proposal is that the indicators must be measurable in order to determine if the standard of quality and safety in perfusion is acceptable and is within the internationally required parameters of excellence.
The development of a registry of adverse events and their notification helps to minimize them, the formulation of quality standards and their application must be related to the reality of the institutions.