Laser Safety & Light Based Treatments

Laser Safety & Light Based Treatments

Being a Laser Safety Officer at a clinical setting, it becomes vital for an individual to make sure that all the safety measures with in the clinical setting and the operating room are in place. This is important in order to make sure that each and every procedure and task is carried out with utmost safety and without the presence of any risk, with in the operating room. Every state in Australia has a set of different standards in this regard that they expect the clinical settings to implement with in their setting. Furthermore, in order to implement these standards in an appropriate manner, it is also important for the clinical authorities, and in particular for the Laser Safety Officer to understand each different laser and Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) system, which will in turn be helpful for the individual to understand the wavelengths coming out from the laser. This is important to know for the Laser Safety Officer, as this will allow him to classify the laser and the kind of eyeware that will be needed by those involved in the operation of this procedure with in the operating room of the clinical setting.

There are many loopholes in regard to the safety of the patients and to the safety of the operating staff, as well. This is said because of the fact that the operating staff is not well trained in regard to the use of the laser equipment in an effective manner. It can be said that it is important for a Laser safety Operator to make sure that the opertaing staff is being provided with the necessary training program in regard to the use of these equipments in a safe manner (Jawad, 2011). The examples in such sense are found in some cases that, keys were left on the machine, which reflect carelessness on behalf of the staff, while they should have been kept safely, in order for others to be able to use the machine, which can result in dangerous consequences, as well (Jawad, 2011).

There are three levels of non-compliance in terms of use of laser equipment in a clinical setting. A clinical setting that has been graded in the level 1 category of non-compliance in this regard is supposed to have commited non-compliance at a very minor level. A clinical setting that has been graded in the level 2 category of non-compliance in this regard is supposed to have been issued a survey report on committing a moderately serious item of non-compliance. Finally, a clinical setting is graded as a level 3 non-compliance setting, if it is supposedly indulged in committing non-compliance on the most serious level. Considering these levels of non-compliance, it can be said that the clinical setting in this case was graded at level two of non-compliance. This is said because of the fact that the operating staff was using the laser euqipment, without having prior training for its operation (Castelluccio, ...