Patient Safety; Patient Monitoring - Dräger Perseus A500 Instructions For Use Manual

For your safety and that of your patients

Patient safety

The design of the medical device, the
accompanying documentation, and the labeling on
the medical device are based on the assumption
that the purchase and the use of the medical
device are restricted to persons familiar with the
most important inherent characteristics of the
medical device.
Instructions and WARNING and CAUTION
statements are therefore largely limited to the
specifics of the Dräger medical device.
The instructions for use do not contain any
information on the following points:
– Risks that are obvious to users
– Consequences of obvious improper use of the
medical device
– Potentially negative effects on patients with
different underlying diseases
Medical device modification or misuse can be
dangerous.

Patient monitoring

The user of the medical device is responsible for
choosing suitable monitoring that provides
appropriate information about medical device
performance and the patient's condition.
Patient safety may be achieved by a wide variety
of means ranging from electronic surveillance of
medical device performance and patient condition
to simple, direct observation of clinical signs.
The responsibility for selecting the best level of
patient monitoring lies solely with the user of the
medical device.
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