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Define sentinel events8/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Patient or staff death or serious injury associated with a burn incurred from any source in the course of a patient care process in a health care setting.Any incident in which a line designated for oxygen or other gas to be delivered to a patient contains no gas, the wrong gas, or is contaminated by toxic substances.Patient or staff death or serious disability associated with an electric shock in the course of a patient care process in a health care setting.Patient death or serious injury resulting from failure to follow up or communicate laboratory, pathology, or radiology test results.Patient death or serious disability resulting from the irretrievable loss of an irreplaceable biological specimen.Artificial insemination with the wrong donor sperm or wrong egg.Any stage 3, stage 4, or unstageable pressure ulcers acquired after admission/presentation to a health care setting.Patient death or serious injury associated with a fall while being cared for in a health care setting.Death or serious injury of a neonate associated with labor or delivery in a low-risk pregnancy.Maternal death or serious injury associated with labor or delivery in a low-risk pregnancy while being cared for in a health care setting.Patient death or serious injury associated with unsafe administration of blood products.Patient death or serious injury associated with a medication error (e.g., errors involving the wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong patient, wrong time, wrong rate, wrong preparation, or wrong route of administration).Patient suicide, attempted suicide, or self-harm resulting in serious disability, while being cared for in a health care facility.Patient death or serious disability associated with patient elopement (disappearance).Discharge or release of a patient/resident of any age, who is unable to make decisions, to other than an authorized person. ![]() Patient death or serious injury associated with intravascular air embolism that occurs while being cared for in a health care setting. ![]() ![]()
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