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Archive >  Patient Safety 2010

When A Flawed Time Out Gave Us Pause

We quickly revamped our pre-op protocols after nearly committing a wrong-block error.

Melinda Shafer, RN

Our regional anesthesia schedule is often jam-packed. But even during the busiest days, when we perform as many as 25 blocks, we've never had a patient safety breach. So you can imagine our surprise when we almost started a wrong-site block during a slow day, when we had more than enough time to confirm the correct site on the correct patient before the correct procedure. That near-miss served as an important wake-up call: We acted quickly to revamp our time-out process so a similar oversight would never happen again.

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