Synopsis

It was during his fellowship at RCH PICU in the mid-90s, that Bernhard Frey first encountered patient safety initiatives such as critical incident reporting and evidence based medicine. Back home, he tried to implement these concepts in Switzerland and complemented them in the following years by issues such as allocation of care, organizing PICU, technical measures, avoiding overtreatment and the importance of the prevailing culture. In this Grand Round, Bernhard Frey will discuss a practical approach for safe medicine, based on his experience and the current literature.

Speaker

Bernhard Frey, MD, is Professor of Paediatrics and Medical Director of the Department of Intensive Care and Neonatology at the University Children’s Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. His main research interests are patient safety and lung-heart-interaction.