essential elements, our last pressure injury was more than 2 years
ago. It was an injury that was deemed reportable, but unavoidable,
due to the length of the surgery, comorbidities of the patient and the
patient's refusal to follow post-op turning and movement strategies.
Outpatient enhancements
Though our prevention program always applied to the ORs at the
medical center, we did not have a program specifically designed for
our medical center's surgery center because surgeries there are typi-
cally under 3 hours and most patients were considered healthy with
few comorbidities. Over the past 6 months, however, we've created a
modified protocol that specifically applies to patients undergoing out-
patient procedures.
