It may be the most frightening scenario that one can imagine happening in an operating room: a fire suddenly breaking out
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Don Sadler
How to Prevent Surgical Fires: 6 Specific Steps to Help Reduce the Risk of Fire
by Don Sadler It may be the most frightening scenario that one can imagine happening in an operating room: a fire suddenly breaking out, endangering the safety (and even the life) of the patient, the surgeon, the nurses and everyone else in the OR. While extremely...
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Cover Story: The Clean Team
“It starts with instrument decontamination, followed by instrument cleaning and preparation for packaging …”
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Stop, Look, Listen: Active Listening Skills Vital in the OR
The ability to listen well is one of the most important success factors in practically any job or career.
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Technical Healing : The latest wound management technologies
The field of wound management is as old as surgery itself.
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Patient Safety in Scope: Trends in Endoscope Reprocessing
All cases of HAIs associated with contaminated GI endoscopes was linked to a breach or violation of at least 1 reprocessing step.
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