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The Affordable Care Act - March 2015 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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ment. Ms. Kelly notes that the dot is not placed on the patient's scrub cap, which can shift or be removed; it's placed directly on the patient's skin, so there's no question about which eye it should sit above. As they do in most facilities, surgeons in the Saint Clare's Health System sign their ini- tials at the surgical site with an indelible marker when patients are in the pre-op hold- ing area. The hospital health system also stocks sterile markers that can be used to make additional marks in the OR, as might be necessary during breast surgery. Ms. Kirchner says her facilities use sin- gle-use markers specif- ically designed for site marking so the ink doesn't rub off during skin prepping. She says the markers' pur- ple ink can be difficult to see on patients with dark skin, so in those instances her staff triple checks the surgi- 7 2 O U T P A T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | M A R C H 2 0 1 5 RECOVERY IS NOT SAFETY IS EASY DriFloor™ Absorbent Pad Trip-No-More™ Cord Alert For more information or to place an order, call 866-764-3327. www.Ansell.com/SANDEL ©2014 Ansell Limited. All rights reserved. Crack down on workplace injuries with SANDEL safety solutions. Designed to reduce slips, trips and falls, SANDEL solutions will work for you while you work for your patients.

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