Forensic Engineering and Patient Safety: Reducing the Risks of Medical Device-Related Injuries and Deaths

Thursday, October 10, 8-9 am

Unlike the adverse and catastrophic events that occur in other high-tech, high-risk environments, e.g., aviation, where the results of forensic investigations are made public, health care has been limited and slow in doing so. As a result, in part, the industry lags in lessons learned from its medical device-related patient injuries and deaths. In reviewing actual forensic engineering case studies, considerable knowledge emerges on how such incidents occur and can be prevented in the future.