[Solved]: Failure Mode and Effective Analysis Case 1 A FMEA…

Failure Mode and Effective Analysis Case 1 A FMEA is being performed by a hospital’s Drugs and Therapeutic Committee (DTC) on switching to a brand name system of medication (i.e. using brand names instead of generic names). The DTC has predicted a high likelihood of mix-ups and dispensing errors, noting that the hospital still uses a manual hand-written prescription system. The DTC cited an example of such mix-up as: potential mix-up between Adderall and Inderal. This process has revealed many overlapping characteristics that have contributed and continue to contribute to errors with this practice. These characteristics include look-alike brand names; availability in similar dosage strengths; sound-alike brand names; likelihood of being stored near each other; package and labelling similarities when both are purchased from the same manufacturer; illegible prescription; heavy workload. a) Elucidate the steps involved in FMEA and identify effective strategies to reduce the risk of confusions in the given scenario. b) For the purpose of this exercise, given the data at hand, our imagined FMEA team would assign criticality ratings. Explain what these ratings mean and calculate the risk priority number and arrange the potential causes of failure as per the priority for corrective actions. S/N Failure modes Frequency Detection Severity RPN 1 Look-alike brand names 4 3 5 60 2 Availability in similar dosage strength 3 3 4 36 3 Likelihood of being stored near each other 5 4 4 80 4 Package and labelling similarities when both are purchased from the same manufacturer 4 3 5 60 5 Sound-alike brand names 4 2 5 40 6 Illegible prescription 5 3 5 75 7 Heavy workload 4 3 3 36