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Multiple ORs running smoothly as all surgical team members are constantly updated with handheld computers, pagers and wireless phones linked into a centralized, web-accessible schedule.
Schedule changes would be automatically sent to relevant team members, so the proper equipment, people and patients arrive in the right OR at the right time. There would be fewer surgical complications, say the researchers, because team members would be freed from solving logistic problems, and able to focus on the operation at hand.
You see products that protect
Tiffany Trizzino, RN, runs the OSHA-mandated annual trial of sharps safety products at the River Drive Surgery Center in Elmwood Park, N.J. Staff, surgeons and anesthesia providers at the single-specialty eye facility evaluate the available options
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LINE ITEMS
A Wall-Mounted Safety Checklist
The introduction of the World Health Organization’s pre-op checklist was a watershed moment in surgical safety. Customized versions were subsequently incorporated into the routines of thousands of surgical teams across the country.
“Safety protocols within industry and health care are built heavily on redundancy so there are many opportunities in the process to identify a mistake,” says John R. T. Monson, MBBCh, MD, chief of the division of colorectal surgery and vice chair of the department of surgery at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center.
The acrylic wall-mounted customizable checklists from Checklist Boards Corporation (checklistboards.com) ensure every surgical team sees and completes required pre-op precautions. OR staff move the line item sliders from red to green to show that an individual process, function or detail is complete before procedures are allowed to proceed.
— Daniel Cook
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