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Articles Tagged With: instruments

  • A Simple Intervention to Reduce Surgical Site Infections?

    This multicenter, cluster randomized trial in Benin, Ghana, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa evaluated the effect of changing sterile gloves and instruments at the time of abdominal wound closure on surgical site infection (SSI) rates among adults and children undergoing both elective and emergent surgery. The SSI rate in the intervention group among 5,789 patients was 16% compared to 18.9% in the control group of 6,768 patients (adjusted risk ratio, 0.87; 95% confidence interval, 0.79-0.95).

  • Take These Steps to Avoid Issues With Instruments

    In outpatient surgery, physician staff often pressure techs to quickly turn around sets and scopes for cases, says Marcia Patrick, MSN, RN, CIC, a Tacoma, WA-based consultant, educator, and surveyor for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

  • Have Systems in Place to Report Problems with Surgical Instruments

    When experiencing repeated problems with surgical instruments that are broken, missing, or dirty, documentation of such problems is key to resolving the issue, says R. Stephen Trosty, JD, MHA, CPHRM, ARM, risk management and patient safety consultant in Haslett, MI.

  • Have Systems in Place to Report Problems with Surgical Instruments

    When experiencing repeated problems with surgical instruments that are broken, missing, or dirty, documentation of such problems is key to resolving the issue, says R. Stephen Trosty, JD, MHA, CPHRM, ARM, risk management and patient safety consultant in Haslett, MI.

  • Surgical Instruments’ Sterilization Probed After 11 Years of Complaints

    “It’s a surgeon’s nightmare.” These words, spoken by a physician at Detroit Medical Center, ran in The Detroit News in a multi-story investigative series about how physicians had reported unclean, missing, and damaged surgical instruments for 11 years without the issue being resolved.

  • Surgical Instruments’ Sterilization Probed After 11 Years of Complaints

    “It’s a surgeon’s nightmare.” These words, spoken by a physician at Detroit Medical Center, ran in The Detroit News in a multi-story investigative series about how physicians had reported unclean, missing, and damaged surgical instruments for 11 years without the issue being resolved.