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1. Many Surgical Staffers Lack Fire Safety Know-How
Many surgical team members don't know where fire safety equipment is located, despite having received formal OR fire safety training, according to a recent study presented at the 2012 World Congress of Anesthesiologists in Argentina. A survey o...
2. Jury Awards 4-Year-Old Girl $164,000 in OR Fire Case
Five years and $60,000 later, the case of the 4-year-old girl whose face caught fire during surgery to remove a suspicious-looking mole from her right cheek is over. The girl, who suffered burns to her face and eye in the May 2005 surgical fire, se...
3. Illinois Hospital Sees Fatal Fire
A 65-year-old woman has died from thermal injuries suffered during a flash fire in an Illinois hospital's OR earlier this month. Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion has confirmed in a statement that there was "an accidental flash fire in...
4. Minnesota Hospital Faulted for Surgical Fire
State officials investigating a June 2008 surgical fire at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis have faulted the facility for violating two federal health codes that could have prevented the incident. According to the ...
5. Nurse Accused of Fatal Surgical Office Fire Leaves Prison
After spending nearly a month in prison, the nurse who admitted setting a fatal fire at a Houston office building is out of jail after her bond was reduced from $330,000 to $180,000. Misty Ann Weaver, LVN, the subject of our ...
6. Flash Fire Erupts During Cyst Surgery in Florida ASC
A Florida woman remains hospitalized in an Alabama burn unit after her face caught fire during routine cyst removal surgery earlier this week in an ambulatory surgery center, officials said. On Nov. 29, Kim Grice, a 29-year-old mother of 3 f...
7. Patient Dies From OR Fire Injuries
A patient died from thermal injuries suffered during a flash fire in an Illinois hospital operating room earlier this month. Janice McCall, 65, was undergoing eye surgery at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, Ill., when the OR fire br...
8. Surgeon Accused of Covering Up OR Fire That Burned Patient's Breast
A cosmetic surgeon who allegedly started an accidental OR fire during a breast augmentation procedure and then failed to report a superficial burn sustained by the patient denied any attempt to cover up the incident during a hearing before the U.K. ...
9. Surgeon at Fault for OR Fire
Ohio plastic surgeon Bryan Michelow, MD, FACS, is at fault for a surgical fire that caused second-degree burns to the face and neck of patient Lauren Wargo, according to the verdict of a malpractice lawsuit stemming from a mole removal gone wrong. ...
10. Study: Warming Head Drapes Can Increase Risk of OR Fire
Warming blankets used to drape the head and maintain normothermia during surgery may increase the risk of fire, but there are steps the surgical team can take to minimize this risk, according to a quality improvement study conducted by a team of Mil...
11. Anesthesia Providers Cleared in OR Fire Lawsuit
The anesthesia providers who administered 100% oxygen to a pediatric patient undergoing tonsillectomy were not responsible for a fire that broke out at the site of the oxygen mask, an Alabama jury recently ruled. When Tyler Knight, then 4, was adm...
From Seattle comes news of another patient who has suffered serious facial burns from a surgical fire. Last week, a man was undergoing a 1-hour procedure to remove a bump from his head at Grays Harbor Community Hospital when his oxygen mask caugh...
13. You Won't Believe What Sparked This OR Fire
A woman who claims that she set fire to her genitals when she broke wind during hemorrhoidectomy lost the malpractice lawsuit that she filed against her Boston-area surgeon. The incident happened in June 2005. The woman said that she suffered bu...
14. ASA Issues OR Fire Advisory
Seeking to promote awareness and prevention of a rare but dangerous surgical risk, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has unveiled its ...
15. Only You Can Prevent OR Fires
KEY ADVICE Avoid oxygen-enriched atmospheres, says the ECRI Institute's Mark Bruley, CCE. Mark Bruley, CCE, remembers the da...
16. Brush Up on Surgical Fire Safety
When was the last time you held a fire prevention in-service for your staff? Education is the best defense against surgical fires, says the ECRI Institute, which is sponsoring a Web conference on surgical fire safety on July 22. ECRI estimates t...
17. Surgical Fire Sparks Debate in NYC
Enrique Ruiz remembers blacking out, then waking up and feeling like his chest was on fire. The 52-year-old allegedly suffered second-degree burns to his neck and chest during an emergency tracheotomy performed on April 14 at Lincoln Hospital in ...
18. Cuffed Endo Tubes Could Prevent Flash Fires
Fires in the oropharynx caused by electrocautery during adenotonsillectomies could be prevented by cuffed endotracheal tubes, according to a case study publishe...
An electrocautery device's contact with an alcohol-based skin prep allegedly ignited a flash fire on a patient undergoing neck surgery in a Nebraska facility on Feb. 3. According to Paul Baltes, spokesman for the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha...
20. OR Fire Erupts Into Legal Battle
A woman who was severely burned in an OR fire during breast reconstruction surgery is suing the plastic surgeon who allegedly ignited a surgical prep at the incision site with an electrocautery device. Last December at St. John Medical Center i...
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