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1. I’m sometimes asked if inclusions means lowering standards of excellence. It’s not always understood that this is a loaded question, that it presumes current standards achieve that goal.
Blind spots like this show that inclusion matters.
#medtwitter #inclusion https://twitter.com/alikamd/status/1343266795923197952
Blind spots like this show that inclusion matters.
#medtwitter #inclusion https://twitter.com/alikamd/status/1343266795923197952
2. I use pulse oximeters everyday in clinical practice. They’re one of the most, if not THE most, important safety advancement in modern Anesthesia practice. Yet during design, no one considered shade of skin might adversely impact their algorithms in different coloured pts.
3. This isn’t to say the thought didn’t cross someone’s mind.
https://www.howequipmentworks.com/pulse_oximeter/
It’s always been know some light is absorbed as it travels through the skin. It’s much more likely it was considered and discarded as unimportant.
https://www.howequipmentworks.com/pulse_oximeter/
It’s always been know some light is absorbed as it travels through the skin. It’s much more likely it was considered and discarded as unimportant.
4. We’ve now adopted and scaled its use across health systems. We’ve focused on improving its shortcomings. Engineers and clinicians have created amazing solutions where some pulse oximeters even work on a finger submerged in a bucket of ice cold water.
5. Yet no one, in a broadly impactful way, considered the algorithm and shade of skin.
When talking about inclusion, don’t falsely conflate lowering standards and inclusion.
Inclusion is excellence that can see its blind spots. It sees the problem from many perspectives.
When talking about inclusion, don’t falsely conflate lowering standards and inclusion.
Inclusion is excellence that can see its blind spots. It sees the problem from many perspectives.
6. Don’t lower your expectations. Raise them to expect these types of misses, stop happening.
Demand more, not less.
#inclusion with #excellence and #experience
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Demand more, not less.
#inclusion with #excellence and #experience
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