Potential Installation of IOL in Wrong Patient and Delay in Surgery

Potential Installation of IOL in Wrong Patient and Delay in Surgery

Potential Installation of IOL in Wrong Patient and Delay in Surgery

February12, 2015

7:00 – 8:30 am
David M. Kozart Auditorium

Anne K. Jensen, MD; Neepa Shah, MD; Jessica S. Watson, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia - Pennsylvania

Target Audience

This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, fellows, residents, medical students, and community physicians in the medical specialties of ophthalmology, oral/maxillofacial, plastic surgery, neurology.

Series Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Improve ability of the clinical team members to recognize and intervene at the first sign of a problem with patient safety risks
  • Better recognize, evaluate, and respond to surgical complications
  • Improve partnership between basic science research and clinical practice

Session Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Identify and comprehend the unique risks in ophthalmic practice
  • Spot common dangers in surgical practice
  • Know the value of the universal protocol in the operating room
  • Recognize the shared factors that lead to medical errors
  • Articulate procedures for reducing and reporting errors

Accreditation

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation of Credit

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Approved for (PSRM) patient safety/risk management designation

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE

For more information, please contact

John A. Dempsey

215-662-8069

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Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products

It is policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania for individuals who are in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose to the learners all relevant financial relationships that they have with any commercial interest that provides products or services that may be relevant to the content of this continuing medical education activity. For this purpose we consider relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

The intent of this policy is not to prevent expert faculty with relevant relationship(s) with commercial interest(s) from involvement in CME, but rather to ensure that Penn CME-certified activities promote quality and safety, are effective in improving medical practice, are based on valid content, and are independent of control from commercial interests and free of commercial bias. Peer review of all content was conducted for all faculty presentations whose disclosure information provided to the Penn Office of CME was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest relative to the topic of their presentation. In addition, all faculty were instructed to provide balanced, scientifically rigorous and evidence-based presentations.

The staff in the Office of CME at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Mila Kostic, Director of CMEandthe peer reviewerZalman Agus, MD, Associate Dean for CME, have disclosed that they have norelevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.

The following individuals have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity:

Planning Committee Member Name

Joan M. O’Brien, MD
Paul J. Tapino, MD

Presenter Name

Aida Bounama, MD / Mausam R. Damani, MD / Christina E. Fitzgerald, MD / Nicole M. Fuerst, MD
Anne K. Jensen, MD / Clare Kelliher, MD / Anita A. Kohli, MD / Nicole A. Langelier, MD
Marisa K. Lau, MD / Purak C. Parikh, MD / Karen E. Revere, MD / Daniel H. Sarezky, MD
Neepa Shah, MD / Katherine E. Uyhazi, MD, PhD / Jessica S. Watson, MD

The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.

Presenter NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship

Relevant Financial Relationships: Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received or expected

Disclosure of Unapproved Uses of Products: NONE

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