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Archive > July, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 7

Ideas That Work

Hard-to-miss time out reminder

A Time Out Reminder That's Hard to Miss
Place a label over the thumb insert of your regional block syringes.
If you do a lot of regional anesthesia cases, here's a simple way to add an extra level of security to your wrong-site surgery prevention efforts. After you've properly prepared the syringes for the blocks, tape a bright yellow "time out" label over the thumb insert. You can't operate the syringes, and therefore can't administer the block, until you remove the label from this very noticeable area. That last step of removing the label reminds us anesthesia providers to verify that we're delivering the injection to the correct body part. It's a simple but effective way to add redundancy to the process.

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