Letters & E-mails

Treat the Patient, Not the Monitor; The Problem With Surgical Site Marking; Jay Horowitz, CRNA; Steve Lober, MD; Anesthetists; Association; Case; Extra; IV; Marking We; Mr. Snyder; Nurse Anesthetists; PACU; Practical; Problem Surgical Site Marking We; Proponents; Site Marking We; Snyder; States; Surgical Site Marking We; Treat; United States; Yes. Practical; accuracy; address; airway; anesthesia; argue; article; artificial; asked; assisted; avoid; bad; basis; bit; breakdowns; capable; capnography; carbon; cases; cheap; condition; conspire; continue; controlled; countersigned; couple; daily; device; dioxide; doctors; easily; efforts; eight-hour; end-tidal; engaged; engages; entire; essential; expensive; fact; fancy; fashion; feel; felt; finished; flaw; frequencies; fully; gold; good; happen; hobgoblin; hybrid; implement; including; increase; inherent; initialing; initials; institutions; insures; intelligently; issue; job; larger; lead; leave; level; make; mark; marked; marking; mistake; mistaken; mistakes; monitor; monitoring; multiple; nets; note; nurse's; nursing; occur; page; patient; patients; patterns; perception; perfect; pre-cordial; pre-tracheal; prevent; process; produce; provide; quality; quick; rarely; reading; recognized; require; requiring; respiratory; rightfully; risk; routine; run; sadly; safety; sedation; send; simple; site; site-marking; small; staff; standard; standardized; standards; stethoscope; storms; surgeon; surgeries; surgery; surgical; system; talk; team; technique; technology; time; timely; treating; truth; unacceptable; unintended; universal; variability; ventilation; verify; walk; wrong-site