Certification: Eligible for 1 CE credit from the ACI
In this 60-minute webinar, join expert Jahan Azizi, Special Projects Manager of Healthmark Industries, as he provides an overview of the HTM professional’s role as it pertains to patient safety with a specific focus on safety-related endoscopes. He will discuss the importance of reporting requirements to the FDA with examples of reported problems and how PM can help with preventing potential harm to patients from the compromised endoscope.
Azizi will cover the following items:
• Define the HTM Profession & professionals
• What do HTM professionals do
• Define what is a medical device & types
• The role of HTM professionals in the hospital as related to Patient Safety
• What is reporting and why is it important, examples
• Endoscope clinical use and history
• Scope design (angles, internal lumens, etc.)
• A look inside the endoscope
• Technologies that require PM and expertise of the HTM professionals
• Endoscope leak test
• Enhanced Inspection technologies, and
• Sample Extraction devices for Chemical testing.
