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over the correct eyebrow and wristbands over the correct wrist. The surgeon can use a sterile skin marker to initial the skin next to the sticker. You can place a sticker on the gown at the right or left shoulder. "With a very high volume of ophthalmology procedures in our facility, laterality risk is an added concern," says Cherry Maloney, RN, MBA, CSPM, the central sterile man- ager at the Callahan Eye Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. Her surgeons are required to "mark and band" patients. Using a sterile marker, the physician initials above the correct eye and applies an arm band to the wrist of the same side. The banded wrist is kept outside of the drape should the initials be covered after draping. "Patients do not enter the OR until this pre-time-out verification has been com- pleted," says Ms. Maloney. "We have had great success with no wrong-site surgeries largely due to this process." 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 Y 2 0 1 5 z MARK AND BAND Patients at the Callahan Eye Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., wear an arm band on the same side as the eye to be operated on. Cherry Maloney, RN, MBA, CSPM

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