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Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

Study: CT Colongraphy Effective in Finding Polyps

A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > January, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 1

Safety

Wrong-Site Surgery Video Hits Home

Alice Heiser, BSN, RN, CAPA; and Pam Ertel, RN, BSN, CNOR, RNFA

Internal monitoring of staff compliance to the Universal Protocol prompted us to develop a video for re-educating staff on wrong-site surgery. The 14-minute movie (www.outpatientsurgery.net/videos) shows our staff in action as they confirm a patient's identity, procedure and surgical site by following a script for how we want that info checked and rechecked before surgery. Here are the 3 major components of wrong-site surgery prevention that we covered in the video.

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