In Neonatal Intensive Care Units, the proclivity to error and the occurrence of adverse events is even greater, given the greater vulnerability of newborns. From the General Dr. José Penna Interzonal Hospital, a combined strategy was developed to reduce the incidence of safety problems in neonatal care. One component in the strategy is the safety checklist (LVS). The LVS constitutes a tool that facilitates the review of critical processes in patients and facilitates the detection of safety problems.
The LVS developed for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Penna was complemented with the implementation of a neonatal monitoring system called SIMONE. It has the safety checklist, a system of alerts and patient management. This application provides speed and simplicity to the task of daily check-up and storage of information for future analysis and is available an open source solution in health care from R+D+i. Although the use of safety lists is not new, its implementation through an open source and free-use software system, developed by an inter-disciplinary team, positions this proposal as one of a kind.