Oxygen flush buttons: more critical incidents

Learning from critical incidents

Ian Clarke is a consultant in general adult psychiatry in the west of Glasgow (Arndale Resource Centre, 80–90 Kinfauns Drive, Drumchapel, Glasgow, G15 7TS, UK. Email: [email protected]). He is clinical lead for the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Patient Safety Group. He obtained a Masters in Business Administration in 2004 and is lead clinician for the west of Glasgow. Critical incidents in...

Internal leakage of oxygen flush valve

Corresponding author: Sung Ha Mun, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 108, Pyoung-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul 110-746, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2001-2001, Fax: 82-2-2001-2326, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License...

A Faster and More Realistic Flush+Reload Attack on AES

Cloud’s unrivaled cost effectiveness and on the fly operation versatility is attractive to enterprise and personal users. However, the cloud inherits a dangerous behavior from virtualization systems that poses a serious security risk: resource sharing. This work exploits a shared resource optimization technique called memory deduplication to mount a powerful known-ciphertext only cache side-cha...

Critical incidents and critical threads in empirical usability evaluation

Empirical usability evaluations (particularly “formative” evaluations, Scriven, 1967) hinge on observing and interpreting critical incidents (Flanagan, 1954) of use: the causes of such critical incidents can often be found in the immediate contexts of their occurrence and can guide specific design changes. However, it can also happen that the causes of a critical incident are temporally remote ...

Critical incidents and adverse events in healthcare